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...dere one, deux years, in N'Orleans, down by dey bay-you. But I eat as much as dey next jeune homme, and I t'ink I can spot dey gen'win article. (And sans doute, dey gen'win article can spot me! . . all mes freres Cay-johns reading dis story, shakin' yo' head, sayin', "C'est qui, cet imposteur?") So I go to dis Border Cafe, take a coupla friends, and I wait in line, you know, ha'f hour or so, and lemme tell you what I eat, and how it taste...
...fledgling paper printed an article written entirely in Black dialect entitled "Dis Sho' Ain't No Jive, Bro," which implied that Dartmouth had lowered admissions standards in order to accomodate Blacks. Recent articles have also questioned admissions policies pertaining to Jews, challenged the morality of homosexuality, and lampooned the admission of women into the college...
...uncomfortable fact," writes Charles Silberman, author of Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice, "is that black offenders account for a dis- proportionate number of the crimes that evoke the most fear." This fear is felt by all Americans, but the anxiety felt by blacks is more intense, more pervasive, more real, for they are the ones who suffer most from violence. The white fear of black violence, recently personified by Subway Vigilante Bernhard Goetz, does not reflect reality: only 5% of the nation's 11,300 one-on-one slayings in 1983 involved whites killed by blacks...
...resumption of dis- armament negotiations in Geneva last week, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev mixed some tough talk on the nuclear arms race with conciliatory noises about the need for East-West detente. During a meeting in Moscow with former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Gorbachev dismissed the first round of the Geneva negotiations, completed in April, as "completely fruitless" and insisted that U.S. plans for space weapons, or Star Wars, research would "dramatically increase the threat of a truly global, all-destroying military conflict...
...seemed barely to miss slapping him, though he appeared not to notice. The Washington Post stopped recording this ritual when it ceased being news. "Bananas have been thrown at Ewing in at least ten games this year," Reporter Michael Wilbon says. Illiteracy signs were back also: EWING KANT READ DIS. If he is not the most glib performer in the interview room, Ewing apparently has had no trouble conversing with and charming teammates or classmates...