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...Cheer); of congestive heart failure and pneumonia; in Woodland Hills, Calif. When a 1968 TV documentary accused Stepin Fetchit of popularizing the stereotype of the lazy Negro, Perry brought an unsuccessful $3 million defamation suit. "I had to defy a law that said Negroes were supposed to be inferior," he said. "I was a star--the first Negro movie star--when the black man couldn't get work in the movies except playing shoeshine boys...
...first game after exams, Harvard showed flashes of its ability in a 74-65 victory against Cornell in Ithaca. Having taken care of the tougher New York team, the Crimson then fell in the final seconds to an inferior Columbia squad, 57-55, as Stehle’s tip at the buzzer failed to drop. The team returned home and lost 70-57 to eventual league champion Penn, putting Harvard on the verge of a crippling fourth league loss...
...great guy. He traveled widely to meet people and tactfully handled global political issues. He would have been the most significant Pope in history if he had broken the centuries-old restriction on the ordination of women priests. Why does the Catholic Church still treat women as inferior? I hope the next Pope grants women equal respect and gives them their rights. Govindasamy Agoramoorthy Kaohsiung, Taiwan I will remember John Paul II as a pope of the people. He did not confine himself to the Vatican but traveled the world, meeting and blessing the members of his flock, young...
...seems that Vargas Llosa—or his publisher—wanted to appeal to as large an audience as possible, and this ambition negatively impacted the work. Ironically, this book is one instance in which market forces conspired to produce an inferior product...
...uncompromising polemics and unapologetically unfashionable appearance, she drew on her own experiences as a battered wife and rape victim in such books as Woman Hating and Intercourse. She wrote that pornography was a "celebration of rape and injury to women," sexual intercourse "a means of physiologically making a woman inferior" and marriage a "license to rape." By all accounts a gentle, soft-spoken person, she repeatedly said she did not hate men, just the subjugation of women...