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...simple gesture, Stollichnaya had combined the spirit of Halloween and Camp Sunshine. If there were a Guinness record for heart, he probably would have broken it. Deciding to burn the lantern at both ends, we returned to the Common under the cloak of nightfall, only to find a chain gang of burly men tossing the leftover jackos into the back of a flatbed truck, like gypsies pursuing the remains of the dead. But as painful as the sight was, we knew somehow that Halloween would live on. And for that, we thank brave Stollichnaya...
...resign, and he thought that would be "appropriate." While nothing will shift attention from an indictment, the White House will move this week toward images that might help Bush's popularity. The President and First Lady Laura Bush will head to Howard University to promote the administration's anti-gang initiative. Bush will speak at a luncheon for the wives of military officers and appear with winners of a national physical fitness award...
When I first traveled to China in the late 1970s as a student and then a foreign correspondent, the Chinese were giddily beginning to explore the new boundaries of freedom after Mao Zedong's death. There was a propaganda onslaught against the Gang of Four--the quartet (including Mao's wife Jiang Qing) that was blamed for the Cultural Revolution, the decade of terror that Mao had unleashed and then nourished. Mao didn't count among the fiendish four, but when the plucky Chinese I encountered talked of the Gang, they would hold up five fingers, then fold the thumb...
...divorce thee” three times—but the same does not hold true for a woman who tries to divorce from her husband. Elsewhere, women are not permitted outdoors without an escort. And in the peripheries of the Muslim world, women are often held responsible, sometimes through gang rape, for crimes alleged to have been committed by their kinsmen.This is all to say that those pervasive stereotypes are premised in reality, and their largest promoters are not campus publications like The Salient, but Muslim leaders committing and condoning barbarous acts in the name of Islam. Critics in print...
...Here I is," squeaked the famous Our Gang character a few moments later, before dropping into a baritone so deep I thought it was James Earl Jones. "Farina, Stymie and I only spoke that way in the movies because white people wrote the scripts," Buckwheat explained. "Our parents and teachers would never let us get away with speaking anything but proper English when we weren't working. The Kingfish usually speaks properly too, but he's hoping that since Black English is back in vogue, he can make a comeback...