Word: sids
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...family and friends, Derwin wanted to be sheriff for reasons grander than ousting Sid Dorsey or cleaning up corruption. As Derwin saw it, jails are part of a prison-industrial complex for young black men. More than once, his brother Ron heard him describe prisons as a big business in which the mostly black inmates became "raw materials" in a heartless system set up only to bring in even more bodies. Says Ron Brown: "He saw the prison system as a modern form of slavery...
...Clinton White House, and who increasingly came to resemble a dysfunctional mob family--the Corleones or the Sopranos, by way of Little Rock and the Democratic Leadership Council. There were the thugs and the buttonmen--the ruthless James Carville, the self-righteous Paul Begala and the detestable ex-journalist Sid Blumenthal--all of whom treated politics as war and were ready to "go to the mattresses" at the drop of a subpoena. Adieu, gentlemen! And adieu, as well, to Vernon Jordan, the dapper consigliere; Albright and Reno, female bodyguards for the Little Rock Don; and George Stephanopoulos, lackey-turned-traitor...
Unfortunately there were not any vendors giving away free meals, or else there would have been more people like Sid Shenai '04, who said he "ate enough chicken masala to feed the entire freshman class...
...Sid is an animated composite, a digital cartoon. Just keep telling yourself that when you stare into his disturbing photorealistic visage at the multiplex next summer. And he's only one of a complete cast of computer-generated actors in Final Fantasy, a Columbia Pictures feature with a rumored budget of $70 million, based loosely on the multimillion-selling series of PlayStation games of the same title. A science-fiction epic that deals with earth's response to alien invasion in 2065, Fantasy looks to be the first movie that does for humans what Steven Spielberg did for dinosaurs...
...couldn't predict the future of the river, he was right on target about the future of politics in America. More than 100 years ago, he observed, "We have the finest Congress money can buy." Like the Mississippi, the more things change, the more they stay the same." SID ESTEROWITZ New York City...