Word: racists
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...rooting for his characters--Young Turks leaving a major financial firm to strike out on their own--Chernuchin, a former Law & Order writer and executive producer, stacks the show's morality in their favor like a Carnegie Deli sandwich. Their former boss (Moffat) is a Harvard-accented, corrupt and racist toff who would twirl his mustache if he had one. "Only a child," he purrs, "would think that the world doesn't work with a wink and a nod and a handshake between old pals smoking Cohibas." His grandson and the renegades' leader, Ditto (George Newbern), is Bull's Luke...
...suddenly living alone, in his own place near Orlando. "I feel completely overwhelmed," he told a Stanford friend after his first pro tournament. Just before the 1997 Masters, an article in GQ quoted him telling a stream of off-color, racist and homophobic jokes. Woods thought the remarks had been off the record. Once burned, he has been cool with reporters ever since...
Flash forward. In the new film The Replacements, union members are portrayed as rich, uncaring, racist, sucker-punch-throwing goons. And the nonunion fellows who take the strikers' jobs--once they were called scabs--are ordinary Joes who are there not for the money but for the love of a job well done...
...also an eloquent comment on the depth of tribal enmity among the citizens of the Jewish state. Iraqi-born Rabbi Yosef is also the spiritual leader of Israel's third largest party, Shas, an ultra-Orthodox party representing Sephardic Jews, who immigrated to Israel from Arab countries and suffered racist treatment at the hands of the Ashkenazi (of European origin) elite...
...believe fear of Southeast is based primarily on fear of the different and the unknown. I do not believe my friend's parents are racist or elitist. Such epithets imply a much more active hatred than I see at work in people's fears about my neighborhood and the surrounding areas. Instead, I think that my Georgetown and suburban friends fear Southeast for the same reasons that cross-racial friendships are rare. People are more comfortable with other people who are like them. Well off, white suburbanites feel more comfortable with other well off, white suburbanites. The run down buildings...