Word: guess
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...only person to lament the absence of our swaggering friend--"the scruffy-looking nerfherder," if you will. Where are the big three--Luke, Leia and Han Solo--now? Leia (Carrie Fisher) still acts, although not usually in leading roles. She writes, both novels and screenplays. (I guess that iron bikini in Return of the Jedi was a little much.) Luke (Mark Hamill) works on comic books. He can also currently be seen in a series of commercials for Big Bear, the supermarket chain. (He uses the Force to move his shopping bags out of the store. Hmm.) And Han Solo...
That episode, like the flap over Jefferson and Hemings, is a reminder that in a country with so many mixed-up genes, telling who's "black" and who's "white" isn't always easy. Black folks play a game called Name That Negro, in which we try to guess which well-known folks passing as Caucasians are really light-skinned blacks. During the impeachment trial of President Clinton, for example, a lot of us joked that one of the Republican House managers fit the profile so well, he should avoid driving through New Jersey...
Personally, unless my curiosity really gets the better of me, I'm planning not to enter my picks online. Don't get me wrong. I'm coming to this party, and I'm going to tear it up on the dance floor. But I guess I prefer the eyes-met-across-the-room tradition to the whole compatibility-query-analysis-advanced-search-engine thingy anyway. Anyone who still wants me can find me at the Roxy...
...would hazard a guess that these very feelings have caused most of my fellow seniors to feel a sense of anxiety or nervousness about their personal and social lives after college. We graduates seem to exude a fair amount of confidence regarding our future professional or educational endeavors. These endeavors, after all, are the ones college has been largely preparing us for, the ones that our intellects have been trained for. Our personal lives, however, may be a realm of less confidence for many...
...Race was not a category of discourse when thiswas conceived," Gomes says. "Race types, whoeverthey may be, like the Super Bowl stars in theAfro-American Studies department, they didn'texist. We were laboring the vineyard before theylanded here so I guess we had to use9RHYTHMS