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...that began to run through my mind when as I wrestled with the impulse to physically hurt her: it was the shock that all the people who were crowded into that city pool heard this young, white girl call me a nigger. It was a feeling I can only liken to shame. In as much as I can't control the legacy of the white supremacy that girl's skin color allowed her to claim, I couldn't control my initial reaction to her slur. As Toni Morrison writes in Beloved, "The definitions belong to the definers...
...days of B-52 strikes on Republican Guard barracks," a senior Navy official says. "But when the dust settles after each strike, we'll ask if he's ready to let the U.N. inspectors come back in. And if he says no, we'll hit him again." Pentagon officials liken the plan to Operation Deliberate Force, the 1995 air strikes on the Bosnian Serbs that finally pushed them to the negotiating table in Dayton, Ohio. "We'll keep hitting [Saddam] until he hurts," a planner on the Joint Staff predicts, "and hopefully after he's hit long enough...
...stung by the resulting criticism. But she couldn't have been too surprised. Politics in Miami is controlled by older, hard-line Cuban exiles who oppose anything that even slightly hints of dealing with or accommodating the Castro regime. They routinely compare Fidel Castro to Adolf Hitler, and liken the plight of exiles from Cuba to that of Jews who perished during the Holocaust. Moderate Cubans often practice self-censorship in order to avoid the consequences. In the past Estefan has generally kept a low profile. But she said that this time she felt compelled to speak out. "I understand...
...Such perfect economic conditions have persisted through most of the '90s and led to a uniquely placid period in the market. As a society in love with stocks, we've never quite been here, so no one can be sure what to expect. When pushed, market veterans liken today's fervor to 1929 or 1968, both bull-market peaks. Because of key differences between now and those periods, however, few predict imminent disaster. But it's worth noting that after the '29 crash the S&P 500, excluding dividends, didn't fully recover for 25 years. And the '68 peak...
Make that Thomas Jefferson. Two Pennsylvania State University lecturers, at work on a book about Stewart, liken her influence to that of Jefferson, the Founding Father of the home-and-garden set, also a dabbler in politics. Stewart, while pleased, begs to differ. "I'm reaching more people than he," she explains...