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...Present! magazine’s silent dance parties are certainly quiet. But Old Yeller was also quiet before he was brutally murdered...
...Though Terry was no longer president of the BMF, having passed the role onto Kwame Owusu-Kesse ’06, the organization stood behind its former leader’s convictions. BMF joined with the other black organizations on campus and formed a strong black presence at the silent protests against the genocide in Darfur. BMF members were not only embracing their identity as black men but also as citizens who of the world...
...piece on Louis Farrakhan [ESSAY, Oct. 21], Roger Rosenblatt says, "The press may or may not 'create' Farrakhan, but it does not create the silent haters." This is true. The silent haters are produced by a nation that will not accept blacks as equals. If everyone in America were truly equal, Farrakhan would be delivering speeches to empty auditoriums. James L. Riddle Oviedo...
...adolescence, but he is too cautious with his material. He calls the book a novel, yet it has few of the elements usually associated with the form. A melancholy Edgar ticks off his experiences and observations; his mother, brother and aunt make brief personal appearances, while the father remains silent and remote. Even the Bronx is incompletely perceived. Granted that it is not New York City's most glamorous borough, it is home to the Yankees and one of the world's great zoos. Neither attraction appears in the book, understandable if Doctorow had written a memoir, but a lost...
...fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief." Often citing this document, Jimmy Carter turned America's concern for individual freedoms into a high-visibility moral crusade. Although Reagan has not been as vocal as Carter in condemning human rights violations, he will not be silent at the negotiating table. After years of stonewalling references to Helsinki's human rights provisions, the Soviets now frequently invoke them when accusing America of abuses, creating a distorted mirror image of U.S. human rights policy. As Pravda recently wrote, "The U.S. today is the biggest country in the world where...