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...There’s still yet to be a black version of the art house circuit that serves essentially as being on the best triple-A minor league baseball team and being summoned up to the majors,” he says...
ACLJ turned Davey’s case into a full-blown lawsuit. They lost their case before the state’s supreme court, then turned around and won in an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals—the court recently made famous by its decision that including the word “God” in the pledge of allegiance was not constitutional. They then headed to the Supreme Court. Along the way, ACLJ made something of a convert of their client...
...certainly enjoyed my Sunday study break, but unless you are prepared to spend the rest of the day lolling around in a post-sugar-high stupor, the Boston Chocolate Tour is not the weekend activity for you. This three-hour, three-stop circuit of downtown Boston may or may not have been a step toward chocolate connoisseurship, but it was definitely a step towards Dante’s Third Circle of Hell, reserved for the gluttonous. And as with other exercises in gluttony, the finer details—actual steeped tea as opposed to tea bags, eating leisurely at each...
...World Trade Organization, Washington negotiated a deal giving it broad powers to block Chinese products that "surge" into the market - no proof of dumping required. As U.S. elections draw near, pressure to use those powers could come from people like Doug Bartlett. His father started Bartlett Manufacturing, a circuit boardmaker in Cary, Illinois, in 1952. By 2000, the family business had $22 million in sales and employed 180 people. Since that banner year, the company has been in free fall. Bartlett says Chinese imports have driven down both sales and his labor force to half their former levels. He blames...
...some it’s more intimate than for others. According to longtime dancers, many people have met their “sole” mates on the contra circuit. One of these lucky men describes his whirlwind romance in the context of folk dance: “We knew each other through local events and then took a Lindy workshop up in Saratoga Springs in February of ’99. Something just clicked and three years later we were married...