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DIED. CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY, 84, trailblazing lawyer, New York State Senator and federal judge who helped fight many of the most significant civil rights battles in U.S. history; in New York City. The first black woman appointed to the federal bench, by Lyndon Johnson in 1966, she received funds for college after a local philanthropist, Clarence Blakeslee, heard the then teenager speak at a community center. As a young lawyer for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where she worked for two decades, she assisted Thurgood Marshall in preparing the landmark school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education...
...This ain't like workin' the counter at CVS! You hustling, man ... That's street." Belsey's southern teaching assistant Smith J. Miller spends half of his appearances trying to explain "pah-point" (Power Point) presentations to the Luddite professor. More striking is Smith's ability to make her motley cast so much more than the caricatures they could become. Belsey's formidable African-American wife Kiki looms large. Her much-discussed 115-kg frame, once much smaller, practically becomes a character in and of itself. She is generally a warm, charming woman, but when angered, she reverts...
...that same grey morning, some 60 other FBI men had fanned out through the area. In quick, efficient visits to piney woods, farms, back-road gas stations and roadside house trailers, they collected a motley crew of 19 more men?including a Freewill Baptist preacher, a tavern bouncer, a 71-year-old Philadelphia cop, and a 17-year-old high school dropout. The 19 were charged, too, in connection with the killings. Whatever the outcome, the trial will certainly become one of the most celebrated in years?if only because the murder of the three young civil rights workers...
...blunt book The Immigration Time Bomb, Colorado Governor Richard Lamm argues that the U.S. must enforce its borders and discourage the "divisiveness of pluralism." Public agitation over immigration also fuels the plot of Lamm's 1988, a political novel that envisions a motley conspiracy to place a third-party candidate, a former Texas Governor, in the White House. Co-Author Arnold Grossman is a campaign media packager, and so is the book's hero. The narrative begins with the claim that "given a large enough budget and enough creative genius, Colonel Qaddafi could get himself elected president." Voters...
...After all, not long ago, hybrids like the Toyota Prius sounded like a laughable idea. These days they are being snapped up by consumers more than willing to pay a premium. So before this pipe dream is summarily cast aside, it's worth exploring. Could it be that the motley coalition of tree huggers and hawks is on to something...