Word: homely
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...YORK, N.Y.—Last week, as Bronx native Sonia Sotomayor testified before the Senate and President Barack H. Obama visited New York to commemorate the centennial of the NAACP, I sat on the Lower East Side, a neighborhood that has been home to immigrants for generations. I work at Henry Street Settlement, founded by Lillian Wald, an early supporter of the NAACP. She hosted the informal reception that kicked off the 1909 National Negro Conference that helped launch the century-old organization. In a stuffy office across from housing projects, I read drafts of college essays written...
SANTIAGO, Chile — Hoping to get out of the sprinkling rain and into our warm beds (well, at least as warm as possible in a country where few homes have central heating), two friends and I hailed a cab to take us home from the restaurant where we had been celebrating a birthday...
...imagine that if his teachers had encouraged him to write about his painful private life, P would now be even more at home in his lucid streams of consciousness...
UPDATED 4:22 P.M. Police tapes from the July 16 arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. shed little light on the dynamics of the now nationally publicized confrontation, but confirm that the caller did not cite the race of the two men she saw breaking into Gates' home when she called police...
...call, Lucia Whalen, an employee of Harvard Magazine, tells the police dispatcher that she saw two gentlemen "pushing the door in" to the home and that the screen door had been broken. When asked by the dispatcher if the men were white, black, or Hispanic, Whalen said that one of the individuals looked "kind of Hispanic" but that she was unable to see the other clearly...