Word: races
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...driver was 26-year-old Han Han: best-selling novelist, champion amateur race-car driver, wildly popular blogger and, as his self-consciously provocative antics at the track underlined, China's most media-savvy celebrity rebel. Since 2000, when he burst onto China's literary scene at the age of 17 with his first best seller, Triple Gate, Han has shrewdly mined a seam of youthful resentment and anomie through his stories of anguished characters in their late teens and early 20s. One of China's top-earning authors, he is widely seen as a torchbearer for the generation born...
...nearly two years ago and is now on a national tour. Chicago theater's most celebrated export, David Mamet, will be represented on Broadway with two works this fall: a revival of his 1992 drama Oleanna and a new play, about black-white tensions at a law firm, titled Race. Meanwhile, hot Chicago director David Cromer--whose moving, teacup-size revival of Our Town is a megahit downtown--will tackle the work of that quintessential New York wiseacre, Neil Simon, directing revivals of his autobiographical plays Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound...
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KEITH BARDWELL, a justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, explaining why he refused to grant a marriage license to an interracial couple. Bardwell added that he has "piles and piles of black friends" but believes the children of mixed-race couples "suffer...
...just have so much depth right now,” junior captain Jamie Olson said. “There are about 20 seconds between our second girl and our sixth girl…In any given race, you don’t know where you are going to be within the team, and that’s a huge thing...