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...physique, her creation, was all she had left. In 2004 she appeared at the American Music Awards, fingering her cleavage and slurring, "Like my body?" Some people called it an intoxicated rant, others a lost girl's plea for love. But is there a touch of professional pride in there too? This is my life's work, she seems to tell us. This what I made for you. I did a good job. Didn...
...truth,” he said. “It’s a pleasure to serve. It’s challenging, getting up early in the morning, having to run several miles, do push-ups and sit-ups. At the same time, it gives me a lot of pride to know that I serve and it definitely unifies those who serve here at Harvard, because there’s so few of us. You’re learning a lot of leadership skills within the program that are unique to the ROTC experience, that you couldn?...
...last segment of his last show, Franken made it official. "I've decided to move on to another challenge... I'll be running in 2008 for Paul's seat." With an artful blend of humility and pride, he said, "I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota." Sounding a tad like Stuart Smalley, Franken said he was running "to help our country become everything I hope it can be and everything I know...
...drop rule, invented and imposed by white racists until the middle of the 20th century. As with so many other areas of ethno-racial relations, African Americans turned this racist doctrine to their own ends. What to racist whites was a stain of impurity became a badge of pride. More significantly, what for whites was a means of exclusion was transformed by blacks into a glorious principle of inclusion. The absurdity of defining someone as black who to all appearances was white was turned on its head by blacks who used the one-drop rule to enlarge both the black...
...important respect: from very early in the 19th century through the civil rights movement, it was strikingly cosmopolitan. Black leaders took a deep interest in oppressed peoples throughout the world. The Pan-African movement and early black nationalism were part of emerging notions of black solidarity. Blacks took deep pride in the Haitian revolution, and black American missionaries played an important role in the Christianization of Jamaican and other West Indian blacks. Black Americans were also open to the inspiration of black immigrants: W.E.B. DuBois's father was Haitian; James Weldon Johnson's mother, Bahamian. One of the first mass...