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Oakhurst, which has a congregation that is roughly half black and half white, is what diversity is all about: people of different races coming together not in the mournful, candle-bearing aftermath of some urban riot or the artificially arranged precursor to some political photo op, but because they want to be together. Things in America tend toward being all one thing or all the other. Schools, parties, circles of friends, television sitcoms are often mostly or entirely white or mostly or entirely black. It's especially rare to see a church that is racially mixed with such equanimity...
...themorning and we have been sitting on their couchcrying for the last hour and a half, while theirgirlfriend waits in the next room. We love thedining hall workers; we love Jim the super. And,of course, we love the people who live in Mather,our rabbitwarren singles, the riot-proof hallways(OK, maybe not the hallways...
Still, learning to read by way of a race riot is a stroll in the park compared with some of the other offerings in your child's school library. Let the Celebrations Begin!, for example, is a cheerful little picture book about a Nazi concentration camp. Its characters--ragged, emaciated children with shaved heads--are relentlessly upbeat, in keeping with the theme of the story, as explained on the book jacket: "a moving testament to all that is good in mankind...
...mayor of Berkeley, Calif. declared today "Waving Man Day" in honor of the 80th birthday of a friendly man who, since the days of tear gas and riot police, has stood on the sidewalk in front of his house wearing bright yellow gloves and waving to passing motorists.Post to Society "Rear Window...
...government security forces. Terrified civilians whisper of special execution brigades, dressed in civilian clothes, that roam the country hunting down and murdering Islamists. City residents say police patrols have fired at random into civilian crowds after being ambushed. In February, the same month in which the government quelled a riot in the Serkadji prison by killing more than 96 prisoners-Islamists say the toll was more than 200-the village of Belhacene, halfway between Algiers and the Moroccan border, was flattened by government helicopters, according to rebels. As many as 200 were reportedly killed...