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Good question, especially since the fair-haired, fair-skinned Malones had identified themselves as white on their first applications. Eventually the twins, now 33, claimed that they did not learn they were black until 1976, when, they say, their mother discovered a sepia photograph of a pale-looking woman she said was their black great-grandmother. Last month, after an investigation of their claim, they were fired...
Consider Harvard's failure to divest from South African-related stocks. The moral significance of this new divestment could only pale in comparison. This new idea is simply the latest in a string of ways Harvard has attempted to appear socially conscious while abdicating its ultimate responsibility to act in the most ethical way possible in every arena...
Historians agree that John F. Kennedy "won" his 1960 debate with Richard Nixon not on substantive issues, but because Nixon showed up on national television looking pale and nervous. The 1976 debate between Ford and Carter is remembered, not for its arguments over the state of the economy or the proper U.S. role in world affairs, but rather for Ford's strange assertion that Poland was not under Soviet domination. A mere reassuring phrase from candidate Reagan, "there you go again," was enough to stave off an issue-oriented Carter attack...
...orange clashes with the pale pink of their uniforms...
...tense night in the Bush camp as George and some key advisers wait for the call that could alter the course of their campaign. Fundamentalists, the defense lobby, the National Rifle Association, the National Association of Pledgers of Allegiance--the seals of approval of all these groups pale in importance next to the endorsement of our nation's most illustrious and influential media powerhouses--Coke and Pepsi...