Word: bee
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...idea that BEE has precipitated sweetheart deals, Macozoma notes that none of the new black élite "control any independent capital" that would otherwise allow them to influence corporate South Africa and that their investments are "often at [their own] considerable financial risk." He also sees more than a touch of racism in the criticism: "It appears that white South Africans are prepared to commit class suicide in defense of the status quo. If I were a white South African, I would welcome a situation where black people join my class and take on some of my values...
Mention killer bees and almost anyone will smile, recalling the long-running skit on TV's Saturday Night Live in which actors donned striped bee costumes and snarled, "We're the killer bees! Give us your pollen or your wife...
...almost rite-of-passage for Harvard students to take part in the hurried and frantic postering of the Yard and Science Center early Monday and Thursday mornings. We notoriously politically active, busy bee Harvard students are never short of events, causes, or discussions to plan, prepare, and publicize. So when we set about doing just that for Take Back the Night 2005, a week to raise awareness about sexual and domestic violence on campus and in the greater community, we were presented with the same obstacles any student group sponsoring an event faces—how to get people...
...Cocker covered this song in melodrama, which makes Green's restoration effort more amazing. Producer Willie Mitchell eschews preciousness and finds a tender little groove, while the Rev undersings at all the right moments. Green has turned trash into gold before (the Bee Gees' How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?), but this time he tops himself...
...permeates the book, to the extent that her stages seem to all be based on personal experience. One wonders what former roommate is the naïve “New Graduate†and what hated and despised former boss is now called “The Worker Bee.†James occasionally injects a shot of realism, reminding readers that “You don’t just wake up one day, stretch, look at the sun and say, ‘Oh baby, I’ve found the real...