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...about the difference between a “field Negro” and a “house Negro” in the time of slavery. According to Brother Malcolm, a “house Negro” worked inside the slavemaster’s house as a domestic servant and pathologically “loved his master more than he loved himself.” He contrasted this with the field Negro, the masses of the slave population. These slaves never got the benefits of living in the master’s house—the food, clothes, shelter...
...White House official said that Blackwill “has been a diligent and dutiful servant of the people and he has decided that now, after the elections, [was] a good logical time to pursue other interests...
Amdan Senne didn't know any of the dead, but last Thursday the 23-year-old civil servant from the district of Tak Bai in Thailand's southern Narathiwat province volunteered to act as a coffin-bearer at a funeral for 22 men. They were among 85 killed when what started as a peaceful protest outside the local police station went horribly wrong. Now, three days later, as rifle-toting soldiers stood watch, the shrouded bodies were first laid out under the hot sun on a field next to the 380-year-old ironwood Wadi al-Hussein mosque. Prayers were...
...only relevant issue is: Are you in favor of or against discrimination? ... I am against any kind of discrimination, [which means] defending those who hold views different from your own." Buttiglione says he can erect a firewall between his personal religious convictions and his duties as a public servant. But with both sides holding such passionate and diametrically opposed views, the fight over gay rights seems destined to burn brightly for a while...
...abortion question, asked by a young woman near the end of the debate, was a micro-history of the entire campaign. Kerry offered a labyrinthine answer. He was against abortion (as a Catholic) before he was for it (as a public servant). This is known in political circles as the Cuomo dodge--pioneered by former New York Governor Mario Cuomo in the 1980s, unsatisfying to this day. "I believe you can take that position and not be pro-abortion," Kerry said, and Bush actually had a terrific facial reaction--a combination of Are you kidding me? and Huh? "Trying...