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...phrase had an almost tragic poignancy. It meant not only secretly renouncing one's race but becoming a "real" American - to enjoy the privileges of equality and anonymity, back when a tenth of all citizens were denied access to voting booths, hotels, restaurants, rest rooms and a fair shake from the white majority. "America" was a club whose membership numbered 120 million or so. Why shouldn't those who looked as if they belonged in the club try to join it, if only as a kind of double agent...
Ariel Sharon has ended the first phase of his West Bank offensive, but its fallout will shake up the region for months to come - and imperil U.S. efforts to rekindle a peace process. Israel withdrew its tanks to the edge of more Palestinian towns Monday, although it maintained its sieges of Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Israeli forces didn't fully leave the area; instead, they withdrew to self-declared buffer zones, from which they have continued to strike at will. But it's not only those ongoing operations that preclude...
...four months away from the September primary, the governor’s race has already seen several major shake...
...beginning I just thought my alarm was going off, but then I saw things on my desk start to shake. I’m from Jersey so I had no idea what was going on,” Chilmaza said...
...real earthquake hit Cambridge this weekend, aftershocks from the public rift between University President Lawrence H. Summers and outgoing Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 continued to shake the campus, as students participated in rallies questioning Summers’ commitment to diversity and an act of protest that implied Summers was racist...