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...leafy Stellenbosch. As a 5-year-old, he witnessed apartheid's bite when his classmates were divided by color. "Suddenly half the kids in my class at school were no longer there," he says. "And so politics came to me." In the 1970s, Manuel gravitated towards Steve Biko's black-consciousness movement. But in 1979, determined to become "a revolutionary with a big beard and a big gun," he traveled to Botswana to join the African National Congress guerrillas in exile. To his disappointment, the ANC sent him back to work in Cape Town. He quickly became a key figure...
...news to no one that France's blighted unemployment-ravaged suburban housing projects have disproportionately high black and Arab populations. It's also no scoop that those same two ethnic groups are under-represented in the nation's elite schools, corporate management ranks and political establishment. The French themselves are acutely aware that racial discrimination is a problem - and since the 2005 suburban riots have appeared eager to do something to remedy...
...vintners' indignation is directed at European Commission plans to simplify the process of making rosé wine. According to strict French law, rosé winemaking is a complex operation: black grapes are crushed and the skins, pips and pulp left to macerate with the juice for a few hours before being removed. This tints the wine pink, and leaves a light, low-tannin flavor. But under the proposed reforms, winemakers would have the option of simply blending white and red wines to make the pink drink, a practice used in other wine-producing regions such as Australia and California...
...Likewise, many songs include hooks of catchy and simply crafted couplets with the explosive intensity of a jarring guitar to boot. But if White Lies aren’t more careful with their limited repertoire of lyrical influences, they’ll soon find themselves one swipe of the black eyeliner away from being hurtled into emo obscurity. But on “Fifty On Our Foreheads,” this tendency to wax melancholic is superseded by pulsing snare and bass, which transitions from an unassuming introduction to an uplifting finale. Opening with a soothing interplay between the swirling...
...Street's interests in Washington. "The loss of these employees will weaken TARP companies." The compensation crackdown already has other private sector players thinking twice about partnering with the Administration to help unload the banks' toxic assets and get the credit markets moving. (Read "Freddie Mac: Government's New Black Hole...