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...tension: once she's Queen, she's the boss. Nor are Lord M. or Lehzen, even though they try to manipulate the young Queen, because this is primarily a love story. It certainly has sturdy roots: Victoria ruled for 63 years and adored Albert so much that she wore black for the 40 years she was widowed. (It's believed in some quarters that she did find love again, with manservant John Brown, but that's a different movie, called Mrs. Brown...
...black and white," concurs McGuire. "Is repairing a cleft lip reconstructive or cosmetic? Children in Sri Lanka live all their lives with cleft lips, so it's not a matter survival. So is it cosmetic then...
...multipart study to examine the communication of race bias on television to white college-age volunteers. Weisbuch and his team were intrigued by the fact that despite a significant reduction in overt expressions of racism in modern American society - the country has, after all, just elected its first black president - studies consistently find that many people still show biased or negative attitudes toward African-Americans, primarily through nonverbal means such as facial expressions, crossed arms and averted gazes. The psychologists wondered how such biases could persist in a society in which racism is socially unacceptable and indeed publicly denounced...
...student was heading down Massachusetts Avenue toward Garfield Street when two black males, approximately ages 18-20, confronted him and asked him for a dollar, said the report...
Parker's opponent in the runoff was a fellow Democrat, Gene Locke, who was also familiar to voters. A lawyer and lobbyist for the city of Houston, he won the backing of Houston's business leadership. An African American, Locke could have pulled key support from the black community but ran a "pretty bad campaign," according to Murray. The late revelation that two members of his finance committee had supported Hotze's anti-gay PAC did not help Locke with moderate Republican voters, who saw the issue as not central to the vote. The business establishment, which originally felt that...