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Ellis Cose's Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World (HarperCollins; 260 pages; $24) is an attempt to break out of what the author calls "the well-worn rut into which racial reflections and conversations commonly fall." A pit of conceptual quicksand would be more like...
...Kelly Black of the women's basketball team, the road to playing Division I basketball made pit stops at every chapter of the classic outline...
...contend Jon removed the $629,500, is not listed on their tax returns. "It is my belief," Murray adds darkly, "that funds were moved from accounts by an unknown person after the date they actually vanished." Murray, who once described his mother's actions as directed "from [the] fiery pit," now speaks of seeking "closure" regarding the fate of his family. And in this he is not alone...
...while other Harvardians gawked at the grunge-wearing teenagers in the "pit," Cambridge students merrily waved to their old high school buddies...
...there are very few flat notes on little side solos, and the moments of all-cast a cappella are worthy of--dare we say it--Memorial Church. All this is atop an orchestra which, despite an occasionally over-zealous snare, disappears from consciousness after the overture as the best pit orchestras know...