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Eventually there was a wild armed pursuit through the streets of Tulsa as the whites pushed the blacks back into Greenwood. The next morning thousands of whites, including Tulsa police and scores of newly deputized thugs, invaded the neighborhood, looted it house by house and set it afire. In all 1,256 houses burned, as well as churches, a junior high school, a hospital and most of the area's businesses. Estimates of the dead, both black and white, varied from 36 to 300. Black residents were marched at gunpoint out of Greenwood. Six thousand were penned...
...there a place for leniency for former President Estrada? We have to talk, in terms of healing, about two things. One is the pursuit of justice. The other is how one handles the personal circumstance of Estrada. In terms of the pursuit of justice, we have to be devoted to that. There is an obligation there. But I am sensitive to his personal circumstance -- that's why I bothered to visit him when he was in detention. He was shown, though, having his photo and fingerprints taken, and that was not supposed to happen. Somebody smuggled the images...
...paper handkerchief on a hedge) and "Muv" (their slightly dotty mother considered dinner napkins an extravagance). Nancy, the eldest child, would capture both their peculiar family life and the milieu of the "Bright Young Things"--the flippant, modern young aristocrats of the 1930s--in her fizzy comic novels, The Pursuit of Love (1945) and Love in a Cold Climate...
...good employer?” The report notes that “human resources” are the “most vital input” for the realization of Harvard’s academic mission. Ergo: “Harvard’s pursuit of excellence in teaching and research requires compensation and other employment practices that attract, retain and motivate employees to facilitate and undertake these activities.” In other words, Harvard only has to be nice because doing so helps fulfill its academic mission. That’s the report’s central claim...
...only admire the energy thrown into the fight and the motivations of our activist friends. But significant pitfalls lurk in their constant pursuit of the “living wage” mirage...