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Given my white skin, my suburban background and my community's proximity to an urban cesspool, it may seem obvious--at least to some people--what kind of verdict I'd have voted for. Then maybe Southeast D.C., not South-Central L.A., would have gone up in flames last month. And maybe Potomac, not Simi Valley, would become a place associated with the nascent racism of the lily white 'burbs...
Indeed, MAC rats must vigilantly protect their precious liberties before they are drowned in a cesspool of mediocrity. To do any less would be unhealthy...
...Russia at War, the British journalist Alexander Werth recalls one sight in devastated Stalingrad at the time of the German capitulation: horse skeletons with uneaten bits of meat clinging to them; an enormous frozen cesspool; and, creeping into a cellar, the figure of a German soldier, his face a "mixture of suffering and idiot-like incomprehension." "The man," recalled Werth, "was perhaps already dying. In that basement into which he slunk there were still 200 Germans -- dying of hunger and frostbite. 'We haven't had time to deal with them yet,' one of the Russians said. 'They'll be taken...
...happen where trade and investment rule." The biggest fear of environmental groups, which include Environmental Action, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, is that the leaks and spills and pollution of border rivers such as the New River and the Nogales Wash will turn the border into a cesspool, and that Mexico will end up exporting to the U.S. both its pollution and products made in environmentally unfriendly ways...
...York City has been called a cesspool before, but a lawsuit filed last week literally accused the city of turning into a sewer. The Legal Action Center for the Homeless charged that authorities have created a health risk -- and caused untold suffering and humiliation to the city's 90,000 homeless -- by failing to provide enough clean and safe public toilets. The center found that most of the park and subway rest rooms it surveyed were either closed or in disrepair...