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...apartheid-era leaders bestowed on the dormitory city they created for blacks on the edge of town. The apartheid government decided blacks had no need for not only freedom, fair wages and a decent education but also roads, trees and houses. Soweto was a place of tin shacks and red dirt. As part of the effort to redress this legacy of inequality, the mayor has repaved Soweto's main roads, and Williamson invented his extreme park missions...
...Pittsburgh Penguins wrested the NHL's Stanley Cup from the defending champion Detroit Red Wings in seven games...
...relaxed program was built largely around music and talking points interspersed with a series of videos downloaded from YouTube. The audience sang a verse each of "America, the Beautiful," "My Country 'tis of Thee," and "God Bless America," then watched a video bit from the late comedian Red Skelton in which he invokes one of his former teachers who broke down the Pledge of Allegiance word by word. Pagano then asked the crowd to stand and led them in reciting the Pledge...
...grandmother's New Orleans backyard, MJ's then mocha-toned face was everywhere: on the balloons, the napkins, the paper plates. Even the cake was shaped like MJ's head, with black jheri curls. Some of the best gifts I received were leather jackets - one black, the other red - splattered with shiny, silver buttons and zippers. (No glove.) My mom and dad also gave me every single, on vinyl, that MJ had ever recorded solo. I couldn't wait to go back to my room and bump to "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" from my little record player...
...contrast to my time in Boston, where I have just about figured out that Red Sox means baseball, my appreciation for the generally unacknowledged pleasure of shared context was quite tremendous...