Word: friendships
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...book's main character is Esther Jackson, an African American who is a midlevel manager at a bank in downtown Los Angeles. It's a few months after the 1992 riots, and racial tensions are high; nonetheless, Jackson starts up a friendship with a white co-worker, Mallory Post. When, as part of a diversity program, a black man is hired to be the new boss of the bank, Esther is overjoyed, and she even fantasizes about having an interoffice fling with him. But her happiness turns to dismay when he is accused of sexually harassing Mallory...
...captain of the Mayflower. The pageant consisted of about four scenes depicting the cooperation between settlers and Native Americans. At the end of the final scene, an acting out of the first Thanksgiving, I stood up, smiled real big and yelled: "And here's to a great future of friendship...
...quartet -- Stipe, Mills, guitarist Peter Buck and drummer Bill Berry -- met in Athens in the late '70s. It was not altogether friendship at first sight. "We were definitely in different camps in school," says Berry. "((Mills)) was kind of the nerdy, preppie, straight-A student who hung out with the other straight-A students, and I was more the pot-smoking cool dude who hung around with the seedy element." As a teenager, Stipe wore unstylish corduroy pants with ribs as thick as ropes and drenched his hair with mustard. Despite that -- or perhaps because of it -- Buck found Stipe...
...admired and worked for Marshal Philippe Petain, head of the Vichy government set up by the Germans to function during the Occupation. In November 1941 he was awarded the Francisque, the highest honor accorded by the Vichy regime. He maintained a loyal friendship with Rene Bosquet, the Vichy police chief who -- until his assassination last year -- fought a long legal battle to escape trial for his role in rounding up Jews during the Occupation. According to the book, Mitterrand had Bosquet to dinner as late...
Japan will set up a $1 billion fund to atone for its wrongs in World War II. The so-called friendship fund will finance projects over a 10-year period, including women's centers, cultural exchanges, and historical research on Japan's role in World War II. But it will not directly give any money to women from other Asian countries who were forced to serve in frontline brothels run by the Japanese Imperial Army. Groups representing these women from the Philippines and South Korea quickly blasted Japan's olive branch as inadequate...