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...popular culture--and endorsements like Ridley's--to defend referring to black employees as "niggers." Ridley recommended that we simply "relax. Take a deep breath. It's gonna be cool." But we cannot. We will continue our efforts to eradicate this harmful slur from the workplace--forever. NAOMI C. EARP CHAIR, EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION Washington...
...alone is not enough. Struggling towns need to attract folks who bring incomes with them or will commute to a larger city for work. And the towns are not above a little salesmanship. So Ellsworth, where Wild Bill Hickock once roamed and locals insist they know more about Wyatt Earp than his biographer does, promotes itself as "the wickedest cow town in the West." Prowers County, Colo., appeals to bird watchers with its 400 species. Atwood, Kans., tells hunters about its bountiful wild turkey, pheasant and deer. Six counties in northwestern North Dakota share a website prairieopportunity.com and play...
...good movie as a bad movie, and you don’t want to be too glib about it because it does represent a huge chunk of time and money. The same ten hours you spent watching those movies [Kevin Costner’s Waterworld, The Postman and Wyatt Earp], people spent a lot more than that trying to get those movie made, and you know how heartbreaking that...
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, Tex.—who headed up the redistricting posse—is no Wyatt Earp. But a hardcore gun-control foe like him is likely packing a six-shooter in his belt, making the world wonder whether the redistricting flap could have been solved faster by a good old-fashioned shootout. No such luck: as DeLay entered the state legislature, tumbleweeds rolling in his wake, his “shoot first, ask questions later” approach to state governance might have finally helped matters—if only there...
Americans should also be careful about Bush's ram-it-and-jam-it, get-real style of pre-emptive global law enforcement--Wyatt Earp on a mission of Napoleonic Wilsonianism. On the other hand, humility and self-doubt can get you killed in a dangerous world...