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...years, many of which have been forgotten. In 1994, 29-year-old Anthony Báez was strangled by an NYPD officer after refusing to leave the street in front of his home where he was playing football with his little brother. In June 2007, Michael Tarif and Evelyn Warren, human rights attorneys, were themselves assaulted when they attempted to help a young black man who was being beaten by the cops. Oscar Grant’s murder is part of a long history that calls far higher degree of accountability...
...Michelle's real image that will most likely set the tone for her time in the White House. "She's got an independent streak in her, and she radiates strength and Americana," says Evelyn Gorman, a retailer from Houston, Texas. "It's been a long time since we've had that. She is going to set the tone on a global scale...
...frosty types. We hope that, wherever she is now, she's getting better parts. Anita Page, 98, starred in The Broadway Melody, the first talking picture to win an the best-picture Oscar. She was also the last surviving star to have attended the first Oscar ceremony in 1929. Evelyn Keyes, 91, played Scarlett O'Hara's sister Suellen in Gone With the Wind and had the female lead in the 1941 hit Here Comes Mr. Jordan, remade by Warren Beatty as Heaven Can Wait. Better known for her string of rocky marriages: to directors Charles Vidor and John Huston...
...hope. President-elect Barack Obama has indicated a willingness to discuss with Raul Castro the repeal of bans on Cuban-American travel and remittances-gestures that could ultimately lead to scrapping the trade embargo. For aficionados, that would be a welcome tonic for the grim times ahead. As Evelyn Waugh said, "The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana cigar...
...stop him from seeing her through three abortions and being, in his alarming words, "very violent with her for two days with my hand," but it does bring home how women could see something redeeming and inchoate beneath the mask of a curmudgeon who seemed determined to play Evelyn Waugh in brownface...