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...found that cooking gave her a boost in confidence. “I realized that I could actually make money by being a pastry chef,” she says. If Pavloff, Chang, and Paur are any indication, perhaps more Harvard students will consider the transition from coffee-slave to sous-chef. Just think of the pheasant...
...gaps, the black holes, in the country's official story of itself. In The Nature of Blood, for example, he gave us Othello's story in the Moor's own voice; in Cambridge, he bestowed the name of the august English university on a doomed West Indian slave. His view does not overlook class or other races - in Foreigners he points out that more than 2,000 Jews fought for Britain in World War I, only to be greeted on their return as aliens. Yet where others complain about history, Phillips sets about remaking it, in more inclusive terms...
...confused, as Mitt Romney, dogged by accusations of flip-flopping over abortion, and John Kerry, who ineptly said he had voted for a supplemental funding bill before voting against it, can attest. Yet our nation's leaders often change their minds. If they didn't, we might still be slave-owning British subjects. When and why they do so can be instructive...
...wiping the great blot from national life. By his 60s, however, he had heard too many Southerners praising slavery as a good thing. When elected to Congress after losing the White House in 1828, Adams spent the remainder of his life flaying slavery, supporting the mutineers on the slave ship Amistad and the right of citizens to deluge Congress with antislavery petitions...
...obvious problem with this verse is that it makes no mention of sanctuary or even immigrants. Land is simply saying you should obey the law. And he acknowledges that there are times when obeying a law - he names the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 - is contrary to Judeo-Christian morality...