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...early letter to Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten comments that "there are so many things that one can't talk about in a letter." This passing remark stands as a challenge to the reader of Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964. For while the whole of a relationship may not be captured in its letters, many of its details and complications lay buried within and between the lines, waiting to be uncovered. Emily Bernard's extensive collection and study of the 39-year correspondence between two of the Harlem Renaissance...
...Turkish constitution across the table at him, only to have it flung back by an Ecevit aide. The Prime Minister then stormed out, announcing, "This is a serious crisis." While there undoubtedly was conflict inside the conference room in Ankara, the "serious crisis" developed when Ecevit left. His remark was widely taken as a sign that his fragile three-party coalition-formed in mid-1999-was losing control, and the financial markets went wild. Overnight interbank interest rates shot past 7,000%, the lira lost nearly 30% of its value and the stock market about a third of its worth...
...toxic brownfields and proposed making a "major investment in conservation by fully funding the Land and Water Conservation Fund" (a fund under the auspices of the United States Department of Agriculture). Bush also pledged $4.9 billion in resources over five years for the upkeep of national parks, a remark ostensibly designed to sooth critics who feared that Bush would attempt to unravel Clinton's last-minute executive orders involving these "national treasures...
...Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa on July 30, 1975, the day Hoffa vanished; in Detroit. Giacalone, who was under a 21-count indictment for racketeering at the time of his death, never spilled the beans about what he may have known about Hoffa's disappearance and presumed death, except to remark, "Maybe he took a little trip...
Take, for example, his 1993 remark that "homosexuals undermine civilization" and that homosexual behavior was "shameful." The aggressive: he said this while testifying in favor of a Colorado constitutional amendment which would have banned laws that specified homosexuality as a distinct category for legal protection. The passive: he said that laws protecting specifically gays would patronize them (an argument Machiavelli sort of makes in his Discourses on Livy). And though the BGLSA (it didn't have a "T" that year) might have hated him, several of its members liked and respected Mansfield personally...