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...Every one of them has been a contributor. So it’s sad, because we’re going to miss them totally, but in terms of their contributions to the program, it’s like their places are firmly established [by] what they’ve done...
Golfer Fuzzy Zoeller was forced to apologize to Tiger Woods after cracking a racial joke. Denver Nuggets Coach Dan Issel was suspended for a racial slur against a Hispanic; Hispanic activists then campaigned to have him fired. Former Senate majority leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., was forced to resign after his highly controversial accolades regarding the late Strom Thurmond. These are just some of the instances in which other minority groups have defied acts of racism. One writer of AsianWeek surmised, “If a white [basketball] player had, for instance, made monkey sounds to taunt a black player...
...shared by Japanese manufacturers. Toyota is planning to ramp up production of its full-size pickup, the Tundra, with a plant under construction in San Antonio, Texas. And Nissan just bet on a line of full-size SUVs and pickups being built at a new factory in Canton, Miss...
...crime was more complex than the myth. Bryant and Milam, who later confessed in Look magazine, were perfect, arrogant villains, but few in Money, Miss., thought they had acted alone. Civil rights leaders and the African-American press turned up witnesses--some suggesting that two of Milam's black employees were accomplices. (Both denied it.) Mose Wright often described that fatal female voice, speculating that it must have been Carolyn Bryant's. (She could not be reached for comment.) Till's indomitable mother Mamie Till Mobley and her supporters vainly lobbied the government to reinvestigate. She died last year...
...line of anti-cellulite clothing by Miss Sixty includes jeans, pants and skirts that contain supposedly skin-firming microcapsules. The manufacturer claims the clothes, even after 40 washes, retain 40% of their cellulite-fighting effectiveness. The $139 pants sold out quickly after their February debut and are on their second run. The label concedes that the jeans are not guaranteed, but they at least look slimming. The downside: you should probably hand wash these items, which is a hassle...