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...blacks to come back. Thirty years later, racial satire has taken a bleaker turn. In Space Traders -- one of three episodes of Cosmic Slop, an HBO anthology series from Reginald and Warrington Hudlin (who wrote and directed the film House Party) -- aliens arrive on earth with a modest proposal for the U.S. government: We'll give you unlimited energy and enough gold to pay off the national debt; all you have to do is give us your blacks. This time the white folks think it's a pretty good deal...
...White House, no one was ready to hear that message. Last Tuesday afternoon, chief of staff Leon Panetta gathered his downcast political team to plot how to put spin control on various election outcomes: a modest loss, a big loss and what he called "a blowout scenario." At one point, aide George Stephanopoulos pushed himself back from the mahogany table in Panetta's office and left. When he returned -- stone-faced, exit-poll results in hand -- he told the group, "We're in deep trouble...
...although Gingrich probably isn't as fit and trim as Moses, to hear him talk you'd think he was the Dictaphone of the Almighty himself. The white-haired man with a Southern accent and modest roots has swung into power as the first Republican Speaker of the House in forty years...
Sander, who lives in a Hamburg mansion filled with minimalist art, describes her design philosophy as "less and luxe." She favors spare lines and expensive fabrics; she eschews loud colors and elaborate prints; she loathes accessories. She grew up in a modest Hamburg suburb and has said her taste developed in reaction to the kitsch and consumerism that dominated postwar Germany. "Ever since I was young, I would look at a woman and think she could look much classier, much more powerful, sophisticated and elegant," she says. "That's what always counted for me, not that obviousness that...
...reporter in Bogota, Tom Quinn, received a call from a go-between: "The Cali guys have an announcement to make. Do you want to talk to them?" A week later, after an introductory phone chat and a roundabout journey to the rendezvous, Quinn found himself dining in a modest apartment in downtown Cali, a tidy industrial city in the Cauca Valley currently under occupation by 4,000 Colombian antidrug commandos and a CIA anti-crime task force. His genial host was the chief quarry of all those G-men: Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, supposedly one of the world's leading cocaine...