Word: belong
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...these things I have been pausing to stare at lately, these terrible things going on half way around the world, well, they just don't belong. They don't seem right. They weren't supposed to happen this way. And they threaten this luxury of mine...
...population is 28% black, as are 6% of the students at the university's main campus in Athens, few blacks are members of the 42 historically white fraternities and sororities there. The Greek organizations and the university declined to provide a racial breakdown but say that some blacks do belong to white sororities or fraternities. Examining this pattern after years of looking the other way "has been painful, as holding a mirror up often is," says Richard Mullendore, the school's vice president of student affairs...
...instead of a joyous reunion, Sonny encounters a multigenerational feud, which Marshall unfolds by moving deftly between present and past. If her narrative occasionally swerves into Young Adult territory, it's not at the sacrifice of complex characters or of her longstanding themes: the fundamental human desire to belong--to a place or a people--and the fratricidal discord between American-born and West Indian blacks...
...brink. Add to that the end of October - traditionally the month of earnings news, tax-loss selling by mutual funds and bottoms (not a coincidence) - a Dow afire for three straight sessions and an election about to conclude, and we've got indications that the 3,000 milestone may belong in NASDAQ's rearview mirror...
...population is 28% black, as are 6% of the students at the university's main campus in Athens, few blacks are members of the 42 historically white fraternities and sororities there. The Greek organizations and the university declined to provide a racial breakdown but say that some blacks do belong to white sororities or fraternities. Examining this pattern after years of looking the other way "has been painful, as holding a mirror up often is," says Richard Mullendore, the school's vice president of student affairs...