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...racist, while 49 percent say it was racist, but not intentionally so. Far more Democrats (33 percent) agreed with the former characterization than Republicans (9 percent), but there was more agreement on the latter option (43 percent of Democrats and 58 percent of Republicans). Bad news for Lott: only fourteen percent of respondents say his comment was not racist at all, and 15 percent say they are not sure. The division between the parties is clear: as many Democrats (9 percent) felt the comment was not racist at all as Republicans (9 percent) felt it was intentionally racist...
...lives in Pine Ridge, S.D., on her tribe's reservation, with its overcrowded dwellings, 88% unemployment and a school-dropout rate of almost 50%. Hollow Horn, 37, and her four children share a three-bedroom home, opposite a landfill, with her mother and stepfather--and seven other relatives. Fourteen people live in the one-story house with a single bathroom. Hollow Horn and her daughter, 9, sleep on a bed in a corner of the basement; her other children sleep on the floor upstairs. Her brother Reginald, 35, who has cancer, sleeps in another corner with his two sons...
...killing a man during a carjacking. But the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals last week suspended jury selection, known as voir dire, to consider the prosecution's argument that cameras in the jury room would distort both the makeup of the panel and its later discussions about the case. Fourteen of the 110 potential jurors from surrounding Harris County had expressed discomfort about being filmed during voir dire and had been excused from service. Said the prosecutors' brief: "The desire to serve on a Survivor-style reality-television series should not be added to the qualifications for jury service...
...Fourteen of 22 Bulldogs are internationals, including seven Canadians, three Finns, two Swedes, a Russian and a Swiss. Six Duluth players are Olympians...
...show began with the instrumental, “Arko,” and included stripped down renditions of the entire fourteen-song album Clone, with a one-song encore, “That’s So Racist!” There were difficulties for the pair in transitions and in achieving the complicated structure of their tunes live. Often in the earlier songs, especially “Same Left-Foot Freckle” Gordon’s voice was out of harmony with Kottke’s deep tremolo. Kottke appeared to get lost three times in his playing...