Word: byrons
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...author who knows what it's like to have multitudes cheering you on - or howling for your head - it's Rushdie. Born in India to a Muslim family, educated in Britain and now living in New York, he's the closest thing to a literary rock star since Byron. Much of the civilized world rose to his defense when the fatwa was imposed in 1989, though, as he notes here, a shocking number of people blamed him for provoking his would-be killers. When the death sentence was lifted after nine years, he found himself courted by statesmen, entertainers...
...Prejudice still exists through Mississippi, however, particularly in rural areas. But even there tolerance has taken root. During the Clinton years, it was rural juries of both races that convicted Byron De La Beckwith, the white assassin of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. (Another multiracial jury recently convicted the white church arsonists that had terrorized the state.) Earlier this year, Myrlie Evers, the widow of Medgar, announced that she was donating her husband's NAACP papers, personal correspondence and assorted memorabilia to the State Archive in Mississippi. "That's where his paper's belong," she said. "He would be pleased...
...large part through careful recruitment and training. The airline received 200,000 resumes last year but hired only 6,000 workers--making it more selective than Harvard. "Attitude is critical; skills are not," says Lorraine Grubbs-West, director at the People Department. (Southwest doesn't use the word employee.) Byron Woods, 22, a customer-service-agent trainee at Southwest, isn't much bothered that he is getting only half the $18 an hour he once made at United. That airline, he says, "trained me for eight hours on how to use the computer, then just threw me into...
Massachusetts State Representative Byron Rushing said that he felt the current administration aimed for the “Americanization” of the world...
...tight that I can't move/It's like everything I've ever known is a lie, and you're the simple truth." Beautiful ends with one of those cheap "Take it up a notch!" key changes, as does Unsaveable, the song that follows. Hill's longtime producers, Byron Gallimore and Dann Huff, have done her no great favors by using such tricks...