Word: belle
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Derrick A. Bell has cultivated a fair for the dramatic exit...
...Bell had resigned as Dean of the University of Oregon's Law School six years earlier, under similar circumstances. And he made the same threat at Harvard, ten years before that...
...fact, Bell even resigned his very first job, at the Justice Department, on a matter of principle...
Timed to appear on the first anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters is the first of West's eight books (including Breaking Bread, Insurgent Black Intellectual Life, co-authored by the black feminist writer bell hooks) intended for a general audience. Though far from his most profound writing, the slender collection of essays is laden with provocative observations on a broad range of racially loaded topics that have delighted and irritated people on both sides of the color line. West flays liberals and conservatives for trying to force blacks "to do all the 'cultural' and 'moral' work necessary...
That's why previous efforts to merge TV and telephone interests have been relatively modest. Earlier this year, Southwestern Bell acquired two cable systems in the metro Washington area -- far outside its operating region. Similarly, Pacific Telesis took an option to buy a cable system in Chicago, although it will need special permission to send cable programming to the system by satellite. Cox Enterprises and Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI), the world's largest cable-TV operator, joined forces last year to buy Teleport, a company that provides a telephone service not covered by the Cable Act: private branch exchanges...