Word: jesus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Christopher Columbus: "How can you call a takeover/ A discovery?" And on White Man's Heaven Is a Black Man's Hell, short, sharp phrases contrast the world of white privilege with the oppressed status of African Americans: "Black history. White lie. Black athletes. White agents. Black preacher. White Jesus...
...better life now," says the doctor, because he does not believe Castro will ever initiate full-scale reform. "There is a lot of support for the government in an emotional way," he reflects. "You hear a lot of old ladies talking about Fidel as if he were Jesus Christ. But young people are like...
There are tiresome local arguments about which way to approach the problem. One of them is how to sort out the workers who can't afford shelter from the freeloaders who live dirty and like it. Then there is the libertarian case: Jesus was a hippie, man. But for the most part community leaders would like to get everyone back indoors, particularly when it's nasty outside. Of course the ( sorehead view is widespread too. As Jackson Hole builder Jacques Sarthou sees it, "You don't go into Beverly Hills and demand cheap housing just because you want to live...
...Nearby, Jesus, a 31-year-old bank teller, shelters himself from the storm beneath the facade of Old Havana's Almacenes Lux department store. The Lux is filled with busy people buying soap from Mexico, soda from Venezuela, baby strollers from Europe, and shoes, clothes and neon-color backpacks, some made in the U.S. The buyers are Cubans with dollars, but Jesus has none. He lacks relatives in America and does not work in a dollar-paying job. Is he bothered by his deprivation? He shrugs. "It's in the nature of the poor to covet what the rich have...
...White House officials whom Fiske cleared of criminal wrongdoing in June may find themselves under fresh scrutiny. More time may have to be spent preparing for depositions. More money may have to be raised for legal fees. Contact between officials in different departments will remain out of bounds. "Jesus," said one of last week's key witnesses, "a new prosecutor means I might have to go all through this again." Another witness said simply, "It's Kafkaesque...