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...Bill Clinton, who Toni Morrison could have also called the “first gay president” because of his outreach to LGBT people in 1992, stepped away from his campaign promise to undo “don’t ask, don’t tell” as soon as he became president-elect in the face of a wave of opposition that startled him. Would a sitting Democratic president risk mobilizing the Right in 2012 by stepping out on a limb for LGBT rights...
...contest pitting the son of a Kenyan against the wife of the man Toni Morrison suggested was "the first black President," it was perhaps inevitable that a battle over race would be joined at some point. It took the form of an arch and insidery back-and-forth between the candidates over the role that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. played in the civil rights movement...
...thought it might be big. We just had no idea it would be this big. Still, we're delighted that Donald Morrison's cover story on French culture last month provoked such a lively exchange of views, in print, in TV studios, on the Internet...
...course, I could peevishly express disappointment that so few correspondents engaged with Morrison's argument that "a new infusion of energy from the margins" is revivifying French culture; I could suggest that those who rushed to condemn us might protest too much. But it's the season of goodwill, so we're delighted to publish the accompanying letter by Olivier Poivre d'Arvor, director of CulturesFrance, together with a selection of other comments on our story. May the debate continue...
...Gyroscope,” the band jerks along through the first verse, negotiating frequent time changes. Jason Caddell’s guitar and Joe Easley’s drums move quickly but not really forward; they awkwardly try to keep their balance. Morrison sing-speaks quiet, descending lines about a woman’s poorly concealed emotional turmoil upon seeing her ex: “She knows he’s coming, it’s really all right / Nobody here could know how she feels.” Then the chorus: “If she spins fast enough...