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...earpieces are hard to see, and cell phone talkers already have a propensity to yell, it often looks as if these people are screaming at themselves while strolling through the Yard. Exacerbating the situation even more are the exaggerated hand motions that some talkers make with their newly freed hands...
...cases where the Innocence Project has freed someone, police have captured the guilty person--including serial rapists and killers...
...been wronged, or to define what level of reparations would be fair. A gap of more than three generations separates today's Americans and the slaves or slaveholders. Nor were all slaves the same. Would reparations differ for the descendants of slaves manumitted in 1800 and those of slaves freed only after the Civil War? The growing population of biracial Americans further complicates the question. Would someone with one grandparent descended from slaves receive one quarter of the payment received by another whose ancestors were all slaves? How would reparations affect a person descended equally from slaves and slaveowners...
...Civil War lived in states where slavery was legal, and many in those states did not own slaves. A large proportion of the current American population is descended from immigrants who settled here generations after slavery was abolished. Should Britain pay the reparations for descendants of slaves freed before America gained its independence? As Winthrop Professor of History Stephen A. Thernstrom has said, blame for slavery (and responsibility to pay reparations) could even be extended to the African countries whose rulers once helped capture slaves and organize slave trading...
...charged that Bush "twists the truth like Clinton." The spot went too far--in South Carolina's Republican circles, being compared to Clinton is worse than being compared to Satan himself. Putting it on the air undermined McCain's claim that he was above politics as usual and freed Bush to amplify his attack strategies while muddying the waters on the question of which candidate was hitting below the belt. Says a Bush aide: "When he truly crossed the line, that's when we could go after him. It was a huge opportunity...