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...fellow Anglican bishop had gone to Duduza, a black township 30 miles east of Johannesburg, to officiate at the funerals of four young men who had accidentally blown themselves up with explosives. As the two churchmen left the cemetery after the burial, they were confronted by a mob attempting to kill a black man whom they suspected of being a police spy. The crowd had seized him, set his car afire and was trying to hurl him into the flames. Bishop Tutu, dressed in purple vestments, pushed his way into the shouting, jostling crowd of angry youths...
...Whatever the gross, Damiano didn't see much of it. The Perainos told him he was cut out of his one-third share of profits. And you don't argue with the made men. In the documentary, three decades later, Damiano is still afraid to discuss the movie's mob connection...
...last Thursday, the Yard was a sea of green—green sweatshirts, green scarves, green shoulder bags. It suggested a sort of ragged solidarity, like that of a low-budget revolutionary army. It was pleasant to think of people wearing green all over America, a huge organic flash mob; it was pleasant to think of millions of people waking up and rifling through their closets to find something green to wear...
...within Harvard itself, in our midst. The university which at the very height of the Cold War protected professors, who allegedly had communist ties years before, from a hysteria led by the angriest and most powerful voices in Washington seems now bent on driving from office, as might some mob out of control, its own leader. It seems like good sport, but with deadly consequences for Harvard and liberal universities everywhere. Who would want to succeed University President Lawrence H. Summers, or indeed even teach at or attend a place so disconnected from its glorious past? When will some...
...fragments of splintered national identity. At the climax of Griffith’s myth, veterans of the Union and the Confederacy realize that they share the common bond of an “Aryan birthright”—and they defend this birthright from a mob of marauding Negroes...