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...cultural and race-relations impact that had the audience on its feet cheering. "There wasn't anything strange about your dad," he said, moving his eyes to the three. "What was strange was what he had to deal with." The children applauded along with the rest of the crowd...
...both parties. “Republicans are really desperate right now; they didn’t do what they said they were going to do. Now, they’re trying to hijack what Ron Paul’s supporters started,” Reale told me. Still, the crowd was rather conventional. One speaker, John Mertens, won cheers when he espoused term limits, but earned jeers when he endorsed legalizing marijuana. Another, Vincent Arguimbau, was shouted off the stage after he rebuked George W. Bush...
...elite,” you’re liberal. When I revealed that I wrote for The Harvard Crimson, one man asked me, “Are you going to write about how dumb we are?” A second warned that the crowd might run me out of town...
...search continues. But potential leaders could learn some jokes from the rank-and-file. For example, when one speaker asked the crowd, “What would happen if we refused to pay our taxes?” a spectator quipped, “We’d get a Cabinet...
...clearly intent on revenge. Military police blocked them from moving south into Uighur neighborhoods, at times firing tear gas. Xinjiang People's Hospital in the city center took in at least a dozen Uighurs who were beaten. One patient, 22-year-old Abdul, says he was attacked by a crowd of about 100 Han men. He suffered a head injury and a broken arm. (See TIME's China covers...