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Miami's blacks, who make up about 15% of the city, have long shared the grievances of other urban blacks, but they have won little redress-or even attention -because of the increasing Latinization of greater Miami (the Latin immigrants now represent 37.5%). And though the new violence was not directly connected with the recent influx of Cuban refugees, that influx threatened to put additional pressure on the neglected blacks. But the McDuffie killing was itself a cause of rage. Judge Lenore Nesbitt called it "a time bomb" when she granted a defense request to move the trial...
...World War II the U.S. wisely declined to exact vengeance upon Japan and Germany, but in stead helped to rebuild them, turning them at last, ironically, into the real economic victors of war. In the nuclear era, revenge may be too hairy a form of redress and self-gratification to be endured. Yet a cautionary super-revenge, in the latent form of a cataclysmic threat, is the governing principle of the nuclear age. Revenge, of course, some times achieves an air of respectability, of Realpolitik, if it is called retaliation or, even more innocently, response-as in "nuclear response...
They speak with many accents but the message is the same, forceful and unrelenting in its demand for a homeland and desire for redress. Despite the handicap of being a people without a state, exiles scattered throughout the Middle East and even beyond, Palestinians as individuals have uncommonly excelled in the arts and literature, in business and the professions. Their political views vary, as do their opinions on the best way to achieve their goal of an independent state. But as a people they have managed to forge a special bond of community, rooted in an obsessive longing...
...once compared. But Muybridge's pioneering works fell between the stools of still photography and cinema, and at the time of his death, in 1904, he was all but forgotten. Even the contemporary fascination with photography has not elevated Muybridge to his proper place. These volumes may redress the balance. With the exactitude of a scientist and the dramatic sense of a stage designer, Muybridge observed lions, donkeys, dogs, deer, even elephants as they strode and ran. Their movements, caught in chiaroscuro, give the studies an eerie, dreamlike quality that has never quite been duplicated. Other series of nude...
President Park's government was characterized by fierce, often bloody attacks on Korean civilians. Both Korea and the United States must seize upon this opportunity to end the repression and redress the wrongs inflicted upon the South Korean people...