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...touched us--that's the thing. As the Friar went on to remark, "So light a foot will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint." She was so lovely to look at. She appeared to be so shy. Like all our children, she seemed to float above the drab and everlasting flintiness of our ordinary lives. Time and again we found ourselves ready to forgive her, just as in the end we always give in and send our wayward offspring another check to pay the telephone bill; and we did it as always with a shrug of the shoulders that...
...America. The walkout, the sixth this year, involves 2,800 member of UAW Local 909 from the automaker's Warren, Michigan facility. The workers are upset at company plans to transfer wheel-making operations from the Warren plant and replace them with work from the Buick City plant in Flint, which the automaker may shut down within months. Although talks are expected to resume today, GM officials fear that the strike could force its North American assembly plants to temporarily close shop by Friday. But it wasn't all bad news for GM today. At the company's Delphi Interior...
Since the arrests, the editorial page of the daily Flint Journal has sizzled with emotionally charged editorials, some bemoaning violence, others railing against coverage that liberally gives ink to white victims while overlooking black ones. Neighborhood groups have hit the streets to raise money for the victims, while politicians are using the incident to push their pet social agendas, from tougher police enforcement to more funding for youth programs. Even ministers have found themselves in the dustup, grappling for gospel truths to soothe confused, outraged flocks. On the Sunday morning following the arrests, the Rev. Denzil Green, the 69-year...
...suspects, like a lot of young men, spent their weekdays working or looking for jobs, their nights chasing girls, drinking beer and raiding the fridge before bed. Weekends were reserved mostly for playing hoops. The Hollis brothers, whose father is a disabled Air Force veteran, moved to Flint from Alabama two years ago. "They aren't angels, but they are good kids," says John Hollis, 45, uncle to Adrian and Anthony. "Those other kids weren't angels either or they wouldn't have been here in Flint...
...thicket of rage surrounding him and his own confused thoughts on race. "My cousins and uncles wanted to go there and kill them all," he says. One relative phoned to say he had 2,000 rounds left over from the military. His mom said she wanted to "flatten Flint." Kaiser himself tries to express yet contain his anger, using the only words he has at his reach. "Not all black people are niggers. And there are some white people who are niggers. Those black people who messed with us are niggers...