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...larger diplomatic effort last week was at the U.N., where negotiators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen continued to push their plan to carve Bosnia into 10 ethnically determined, semiautonomous provinces. The mediators are never certain from day to day which leaders of the three factions will show up, much less what their stance will be. The talks were apparently making progress when the Bosnian Muslims agreed to the military disengagement portion of the agreement in return for a promise that U.N. peacekeepers would take control of Serb artillery and heavy weapons. A day later, the Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic...
Together with Audrey Lord, the poet, who died in November, they constitute an extraordinary collection of individuals to have passed on in so short a period of time. Any yet, while one may say that, as individuals, each has been given his or her due in the mainstream media, I have noticed that a significant part of what they were and what they represent...
...that a complex undertaking? Absolutely. And absolutely necessary. They--Wallace, Lord, Lewis, Marshall, Ashe, and Gillespie--knew that a fundamental part of the legacy of the African American Past lies in accepting and indeed celebrating that complexity...
...sure, the White Media is generally willing to describe, either explicitly or, more often, implicitly, an Ashe, Lewis, or Lord as an "exception...
...aura, a costume. Dickens knew how names proclaim character -- although anyone named Lance is bound to hope that that is not always true. Democrats used to have fun with "George Herbert Walker Bush." The full inventory of the pedigree, formally decanted, produced a piled-on, Connecticut preppie-Little Lord Fauntleroy effect that went nicely with the populist crack that Bush "was born on third base and thought he had hit a triple...