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...matter what George Curry accomplishes during the remainder of his journalistic career, he will be remembered for one thing: he was the editor who slapped a portrait of Clarence Thomas wearing an Aunt Jemima-style handkerchief on a 1993 cover of Emerge magazine. That shocking image outraged Thomas' supporters, of course, but it crystallized the disgust that many African Americans had begun to feel about the ultraconservative legal philosophy of the U.S. Supreme Court's only black member. It also put Emerge on the map. "It let people know there was nothing and no one we were afraid to take...
...year-old de Guzman came out of hiding last week for a press conference at which he came close to admitting responsibility for the Love Bug onslaught. Did he unleash the virus? "It is possible," admitted de Guzman, who sported dark glasses and covered his face with a handkerchief. If he did it, he insisted, it was as a result of "youthful exuberance...
That's putting it mildly. The organ in question was stolen first by a royalist doctor, Philippe-Jean Pelletan, who hid it in his handkerchief after participating in the prince's autopsy, and then by Pelletan's assistant, whose wife later returned it to the doctor, who then gave it to the Archbishop of Paris, whose palace was attacked in 1830, at which point the container holding the heart was smashed to pieces, whereupon (after a few more twists) Dr. Pelletan's son retrieved it, little knowing that tiny slices of the dessicated memento would end up in a laboratory...
...from Seattle's vandalized Starbucks had been cleaned up. While their foes were busy checking real-time quotes for Intel and GE, the antiglobalists were swapping digital photos of police brutality, reading Noam Chomsky's essays on media brainwashing and posting tips on defending against pepper spray (wear a handkerchief soaked in vinegar). The irony of all this is stark, and possibly galling to the technocrats: the Web was supposed to be globalism's great tool, not a forum for its enemies. The Web was supposed to weld together markets into one enormous worldwide trading floor, not organize thousands into...
...notices--and it has been cited as a sociological cause for the genocide. Rwanda is one of those countries, like India, where you are almost never out of sight of another human being. The entire country has been stripped of its jungle, savannah and bush to make way for handkerchief-size plots of manioc or peanuts or the prize cash crop, coffee...