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When you return, you stroll across the road to Don Efren's house. He's sitting outside looking down at his foot, which is swollen and oozing from a week-old axe cut. He's been to the doctor in Calpulalpan, so it should be all right. His daughter, thin, bright-eyed Ofelia, comes out and tells you how she's going to go in the sixth grade in San Martin and then become a nurse. Her younger sisters, giggling wildly, hurl sombreros in the air and watch the wind take them. Her mother, Dona Rosa, invites...
...department has been deluged with requests from outside the University seeking advice on how to set up an Afro-American Studies program, Guinier added. Guinier said that Nwafor "has his own axe to grind." Nwafor's five year term appointment as an assistant professor runs out next June and he has received notification from Guinier that he will not be reappointed. Guinier said that Nwafor or any other junior member of the department should present himself to the committee seeking additional tenured Afro-American Studies faculty members...
...piece of evidence suggests that the American newspaper-reading public is looking for more than it is getting. The conventional wisdom in the business with regard to black people has always been that they only read newspapers full of stories about violence, murder and mayhem. Feed the blacks axe-murders and gang-rapes, the story went, and you will start to sell them papers. This particularly racist view fills most newspapers with gory photographs and disgusting horror stories worthy of the National Inquirer. A multiple murder, for example, produces a week of news stories, interviews with practically...
MUCH more serious, though, is that Susan Sontag still appears to be one of those people more interested in Making Movies than in making a particular movie. She has no religious anguish to purge, no personal vision to express, no political axe to grind. This makes for wonderful objectivity, but it also makes for emotional sterility...
...cuts are "a meat axe, instead of pruning operation," Hiatt said