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...Judith Jamison. Ailey created the dance "for all Black women everywhere--especially our mothers," and it moves slowly and somberly from expressions of anguish and suffering to ones of triumph, hope and energy. Although Manning executed the steps beautifully, she lacked the stage presence necessary to transmit the messages implicit in "Cry"--fear, anger and the struggle of Black women...
...newspapers owned by Capital Cities/ABC, employees were stunned in January when management proposed to use narcotics-sniffing dogs as part of an experimental antidrug effort. Though newsroom wags passed around dog biscuits, most employees were in no mood to laugh. They felt that using the dogs would be an implicit accusation and an unwarranted and heavy-handed action. After heated staff protests, Capital Cities/ABC backed down and called off the experiment...
According to the council's letter, the OCS "did not think that it was appropriate for it to keep the publication on file because this action would entail implicit sponsorship of the Corporate Reporter...
...approach brings up two problems. First, fighting for someone's rights while fighting the system of rights is paradoxical. Not all CLS people share the same radical social vision of a society with anarchy built into it, of a state with revolution built into it, but this idea is implicit in their synthesis of radical theory and legal practice. A possible analogy for this notion of internal revolution is that the kind of confrontation and dialogue that goes (or tries to go) on between the government of Harvard University and student protestors should be happening continually at all levels...
...saddest, and also the most ominous, majority gripe is the implicit assumption that a combination of increased social spending and voluntary social service will successfully address America's domestic problems. This may indeed prove to be the case; but if it's not, a widespread reluctance to chip in with time rather than money could prove disastrous for the United States. We observe many examples in the world today of nations tearing themselves up from within because various groups feel hopelessly alienated from and/or oppressed by others. Americans cannot feel smugly insulated from such strains; national service could...