Word: resistance
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After earning his undergraduate degree in 1998 from Florida A&M University and winning a coveted consulting job at McKinsey and Co., Rayford P. Davis realized he couldn’t resist the allure of the Internet and joined a promising start-up company. But the company, Ethcentric, went bust in 2001, and Davis decided the time was ripe...
...learned anything, it’s to resist absolute cynicism and to allow yourself to be idealistic at least every once in a while...
...hard to see what attracted Connick to the show: it's an adaptation of Therese Raquin, Emile Zola's novel of adultery and murder, transplanted from 19th century Paris to post-World War II New Orleans, the musician's hometown. The lure for Stroman? Well, it's hard to resist a chance to achieve a theatrical grand slam: four (count 'em) hits on Broadway running simultaneously. (Along with The Producers, the others are her dance musical Contact and the revival of The Music Man.) She's assembled a solid cast, including Craig Bierko (The Music Man), Kate Levering (42nd Street...
...made good on his promise not to turn the boy into a propaganda icon, and left him to reconstruct the pieces of his life in the sleepy coastal town. But the 75-year-old strongman appears to be finding the temptation to make propaganda around Elian too hard to resist - in July, he had the boy join him on the dais at a communist rally for the island's children. He also visited with Elian to congratulate him on completing first grade, and later inaugurated a museum in Cardenas to the struggle over Elian's fate. Few Cubans outside...
...alone in its boycott, save for Israel, of course. A number of European countries actually share Washington's concern that an event designed to tackle racism and intolerance on a global scale is in danger of being dominated by the Mideast conflict, and they plan to resist efforts to give disproportionate attention to Israel and Zionism. Not that they will exempt Israel from legitimate criticism, but instead will insist that the focus remains global, and that there's an acknowledgement that culpability for racism is widely shared among the nations of both the industrialized and the developing world. Few governments...