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Vietnam and Oklahoma City represent public deaths, that is, deaths that had an inordinately strong effect on the public consciousness. Yet the idea of public death is also selective. Which events are chosen for memorialization, and which are not? A memorial is the result of the importance the public ascribes...
Unfortunately, again, premature and tragic deaths are not new to sports. On New Year's Eve 1972, in a visit to deliver disaster-relief supplies to his native Nicaragua, Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash. Clemente had been named the World Series MVP the previous year...
Chen and his companions were finally released from the truck in the middle of a forest in Mexico. They were given into the care of three armed "coyotes" who would be their guides across the border. The Mexican leader spoke Chinese; this was not the first group of Fujianese he...
1 in 9 African-American men between ages 20 and 39 who were behind bars last June, compared with 1 in 25 Hispanic men and 1 in 65 white men in the same age group
The symbolism Bush employs can be just as orchestrated. The Governor rarely turns up in front of a camera these days without surrounding himself with African-American schoolchildren, Hispanic social workers, Catholic clergymen--or, as was the case last Thursday in Austin, Texas, gay Republicans. So it was in keeping...