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...with her labeling a black man as the criminal sends a message of the black male as savage and barbarian," said McElroy Hughes, a retired minister and local president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. But "you have to give Sheriff Wells credit for the discreet and appropriate way he handled this," said the Rev. A.L. Brackett, pastor of the all-black, 400-member St. Paul Baptist Church in downtown Union. "He didn't drag in all the black men who could have fit the description...
Quiz Show is more discreet in its indictment of television but no less insulting. Director Redford and screenwriter Paul Attanasio have converted a fascinating and complex episode in TV history into a simplistic morality play, with TV as the bad guy in virtually every scene. Jack Barry, host of Twenty- One, rehearses to himself before the show like some hammy dinner-theater thespian. When the quiz shows come on, Average Joes troop home to their TV set like sheep to the slaughter (with those same emblematic '50s-family-glued-to- th e-TV shots that Stone uses in Natural Born...
...creating himself as an elder statesman. He wrote his memoirs in 1978, then eight more books largely devoted to international strategy. He moved to the wealthy suburb of Saddle River, New Jersey (where he stayed until 1990, moving a mile away to Park Ridge), and began giving discreet dinners for movers and shakers. President Reagan called to ask his advice. So did President Bush. In November 1989, he became the first important American to make a public visit to Beijing after the massacre at Tiananmen Square...
...case, money should not prevent Harvard from providing its students with the best, most discreet form of AIDS testing available. If even one students fails to get tested because of a fear that the test could be tragic. Similarly, if even one graduate tragic. Similarly, If even one graduate loses a job opportunity because an AIDS test result is released, Harvard would be morally responsible...
Most of these discreet lovers say the use e-mail to communicate with boyfriends and girlfriends from other places; these aficionados cite speed as the main advantage over letters and price as the clear benefit over the telephone. For first-years and the odd upperclassperson with a hometown honey, e-mail "rocks their world," according to one student, speaking on condition of anonymity...