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...develop economic independence, for instance, the Nation of Islam's enterprises are less than impressive: small businesses such as restaurants, the Final Call newspaper and security-guard companies that contract with public housing projects and similar institutions in many cities around the country. In all, the Muslims probably employ fewer blacks--perhaps a few thousand--than a couple of good-size auto plants. Much is made, and rightly so, of the thousands of black ex-criminals and drug addicts that the Muslims have helped to lead newly productive lives. But black Christian denominations have long worked similar miracles...
Summerbridge, for example, would not be able to employ a year-round afterschool program coordinator without the Americorps money, Han said...
...must take the strict standards we employ in the academic sphere and bring into the realm of physical conditioning. Wasn't it Locke, who in providing instruction to educators, recognized that one is only properly and thoroughly educated 'when taught to value both "a sound mind and a sound body...
...decided to have the detective testify. That gave Cochran the opening to cast the trial in racial terms, which worked because Simpson was wealthy enough to hire lawyers and investigators to dig up proof of racially motivated police misconduct. It is no more unethical for Simpson's team to employ such a strategy than it was for Clarence Thomas to claim he was being subjected to a "high-tech lynching" during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings. As Cochran explained to me last week, "any lawyer who didn't go after that would be guilty of malpractice...
Farces as a rule employ well-worn props. Even so, Moon over Buffalo has an especially familiar feel. To see it once is almost to see it twice, given how much daje vu is involved. You recognize this comic turn from Kiss Me, Kate, that one from a Preston Sturges film. But Ludwig has a gift for making the conventional convivial. Whether you know it or not, you have spent your share of mornings in '50s Buffalo. And you had a good time there...