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Among these segregated but proud institutions was the elementary school where generations received the sort of rigorous education that inner-city blacks today can hardly imagine. Another was the separate-but-more-than-equal "colored picnic," where blacks who worked at the paper mill gathered to dance, play bid whist and gorge themselves on soul food. Small wonder, as Gates writes, that for many of his parents' generation, "integration was experienced as a loss . . . Who in his right mind would want to go to the mill picnic with the white folks when it meant shutting the colored one down...
...frosh who signed up to participate in the Minority Weekend were placed with students of the same ethnicity. A number of ethnic programs, including a carnival sponsored by the Caribbean Club and a picnic by the Freshman Black Table, will take place on Saturday...
...traveling companion and I found ourselves parked at the side of the road, approximately 93 miles south of Sverdlovsk-45, sharing a picnic lunch with a Russian scientist and two former military officers. Ignoring the freezing wind, we ate brown bread heaped with butter and red caviar. We drank tea from a thermos that had given up its heat hours ago, and stamped our feet in the snow as we discussed the import of a meeting held two hours earlier...
...Department's fancy talk about "Rights" is ill-spent indignation. We Singaporeans understand that it is the law-abiding citizens whose rights should come first. And our infinitely wise government has preserved these rights successfully. How? By meting out the occasional harsh punishment to criminals. Sure caning is no picnic, but every would-be criminal in our country knows that the consequences of being caught surely outweigh the momentary pleasure he might derive from his crime...
...night before the happy day was no picnic, however...