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...deep enough into any family and you can turn up some pretty interesting dirt. Ancestry.com found that Coleman Sharpton, the great-grandfather of civil rights activist AL SHARPTON, was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was the great-great-grandfather of Senator STROM THURMOND. Yep, ancestors of the deceased icon of segregation owned ancestors of the permed icon of Brooklyn, N.Y. "The shame is that people were owned as property," said the ever voluble Sharpton, who used the revelation to do a little sermonizing. "Strom Thurmond ran for President in 1948 on a segregationist ticket...
...stepped-up effort to round up undocumented aliens. A bust at a Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in Greeley allegedly turned up several hundred illegals not long ago. That, coupled with the often scrambled remarks on immigration from Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado, has strained what historically has been civil relations between Hispanics, now 20% of Colorado's 4.7 million population, and whites...
...courageous defiance of obscurantism, the head-scarf-burning instead sparks a riot.Shots are fired. What one might call a coup de théâtre is staged. For three days, the continuing blizzard seals Kars off from the outside world and from the Turkish army that would restore civil order. Filled with the desire to escape Kars alive with Ipek, Ka makes love and poetry of almost painful beauty.Yet as the novel unfolds, we realize that our narrator isn’t an all-knowing presence, but rather an old friend trying desperately to piece together Ka?...
...Lebanon's democracy movement up against a polarization and civil...
...understand that they have to live together. We have the benefit of past experience, which was a deadly experience. There is no possibility of somebody coming out victorious and somebody vanquished. We have to end up sitting together and finding ways to compromise so the country is victorious. No civil war. I don't believe that...