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...certainly wouldn't have paid them," says a current Drexel director. "The bonuses were certainly consistent with the firm's culture and tradition, but if you're asking me an ethical question or a common-sense economic question, the answer is no. But that's the nature of the beast. It's a carry-over of the greed of the 1980s...
...believable than the truth in this case, that a man premeditatedly shot both his seven-month pregnant wife and himself to collect insurance money and open a restaurant. To back up their theory, the authors point out that "white society already perceived the Black male as a murderous, adulterous beast as a result of... historically biased media portrayal." Please. Aside from the KKK, did Maddox and Allen find a single white person (did they even ask one at all?) who replied that s/he considered Black men "murderous, adulterous beast[s]"? A single shred of evidence might begin to justify making...
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...death of Carol Stuart were so much more significant than that of James Moody, or any other person killed that day, added an element of class elitism to the web of prejudice. Additionally, much of white society already perceived the Black male as a murderous, adulterous beast as a result of this historically biased media portrayal. The press exacerbated this perception by referring to the supposed killer as a Black man "lurking in the shadows of the nearby woods, poised to strike at any moment." Finally, their fear of every Black man "lurking in the shadows of the nearby woods...
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (CBS, Dec. 12, 9 p.m. EST). This literate fantasy series about a sensitive monster living beneath the streets of New York City was scuttled by low ratings. But it is back with a twist: the eponymous beauty, played by Linda Hamilton, is kidnaped and killed. Anyone got a new title...