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...Down South," a collaboration with Langston Hughes (the only movie work the poet-playwright-essayist did), and, the following year, "Broken Strings," a sweet-tempered indie drama in which Muse starred. An impressive resume. Just as impressive is that he achieved this screen familiarity without bending overmuch to the meanest stereotypes expected of black actors...
...door of the World Cup is closed to me," he said later. Football fans around the world mourned with Shevchenko, for they will be deprived of the chance of seeing football's most prolific striker?73 goals in 104 games for Italian giants AC Milan in the world's meanest league?performing on its greatest stage...
...There is something more than a little unsettling in the notion that while the U.S. rains down hellfire on Afghanistan and prepares its meanest fighters to go in and terminate bin Laden, he is holding long-distance press conferences. It certainly raises questions about the idea that the Al Qaeda leader is on the run, or under fire, or skulking in a cave somewhere in the war zone. After all, granting an interview, even through an intermediary, massively raises the risk of exposing bin Laden's whereabouts to the satellites, drones and spies of the U.S. At face value...
...California are part of a crusade that is already spilling out of the hands of its would-be commander- in-chief. The terror of those who hate us can spin into the terror of those who love us, and in both cases we, understood in any but the meanest and most exclusionary of manners, are at a loss. The United States has promoted itself as a nation of immigrants, and yet immigration continues to arouse fervid reactions against it. Accordingly, the we that I have been deploying is far from easy; it shifts and slouches along, flies and falls...
...cove of Eddie the Zamboni Driver, a bit too far from the hot dog stand and a bit too close to the home-team band. Its view of the action is comprehensive; its position within the arena is commanding. It is also the home to some of the meanest, nastiest things you'd ever hear uttered in public...