Word: chafes
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...swept away by "Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South," edited by William Henry Chafe, Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad and the staff of the Behind the Veil Project" (New Press; November), giving it a starred review. The book and CD draw on the 1,200 interviews with African-Americans that make up the Duke University collection called Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South. Says PW, "Viscerally powerful...Readers and listeners will confront ?the dailiness of the terror blacks experienced at the hands of capricious whites,? and of ?the capacity...
Decidedly less sunny are the family men in The Mind of the Married Man (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.; preview 10 p.m. E.T. Tuesday, Sept. 11), successful Chicago journalists who fantasize about affairs (or just have them) and chafe under domestic responsibility. Think Sex and the City minus the Jimmy Choo shoes and cosmos but with an extra dose of dread. Bookended by two close friends, one philandering and the other henpecked, columnist Micky Barnes (creator-writer Mike Binder) fights temptation for his hot new assistant (Ivana Milicevic) while trying to do right by his hot wife (Sonya Walger). (The series...
...bedside of a five-month-old boy injured by a stone thrown at his parents' car as they drove to their home in the Shilo settlement. The baby died soon after, and Sharon was deeply affected by the tragedy. Still, though Sharon may sympathize with the settlers' plight, they chafe at what they consider his restraint. So do Likud activists, furious that their leader isn't taking a harder line. Sharon is doing his best to soothe his party rank and file, stopping in at their weddings and dinners. The army too wants the Prime Minister to do more...
...more people use hearing aids? For most adults, a decline in hearing occurs so gradually as to be imperceptible--except to family and friends who chafe at having to repeat themselves or at being subjected to the blare of a television turned up to accommodate their loved one's poor hearing. Some discover their disability during a physical exam. Fred Smith, 92, a retired San Francisco businessman, got his wake-up call in the Navy. He was taken off sea duty in the Pacific and transferred back to the States during World War II after he failed a hearing test...
...What the Atlantic dispute over missile defense reveals is a philosophical chasm that may prove impossible to bridge. Left-tilting European governments invest real significance in the patchwork of multilateral treaties and institutions that constitute a ?global governance? system. But American conservatives, such as those in Bush?s coterie, chafe at such constraints on unilateral action. Europeans believe global warming and genetically modified food are threats worthy of diplomatic attention; Bush?s national security team hardly believes such concerns exist. And the E.U. is far more committed to the United Nations and international development: European countries collectively spend three times...