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Elaine White, 60, a professional mediator, remembers the precise moment 10 years ago when she realized she had a hearing problem. She and a colleague were leading a prejudice-reduction workshop in Rochester, Minn. One of the participants uttered a racial slur. "I didn't hear it," White says. "Fortunately, the other facilitator made an appropriate response. But if I had been there by myself, I would have ignored it--and the point of the workshop was to encourage people not to ignore racial slurs." Shortly thereafter, White got her first hearing...
...issues for the simple-minded masses, translated to high ratings and profits) have conspired with the instantaneous capabilities of the Web. Rage fires and cross-fires through the ether at the twitch of a billion mouse-fingers to create toxic political weather systems, an atmosphere of unthinking scorn, slur and shallow but blinding indignation...
...Ling grew up outside Sacramento, Calif., with "people getting in my face and going 'Risa Ring.' They'd call me Lisa Yellow." Today, as a highly visible TV personality, she gets the taunts via e-mail. Within the haystack of praise in her In box, she finds the occasional slur. "They'll add 'Chink' at the end or 'Go home to China.' I got a pretty hurtful one that said, 'I'm a Vietnam veteran, and I can't stand to look at your flat face every day.' Sometimes I can't help myself. And I wrote back, 'I hope...
Summers claims that the drug caused Nixon to slur his speech, to become confused, and to exhibit evidence of such instability that Defense Secretary James Schlesinger quietly passed the word at the Pentagon that any unusual mobilization orders from Nixon must be checked with Schlesinger first...
...senior citizens' homes it's a wonder her hair isn't blue. She's not exaggerating when she boasts of visiting all 62 counties. She probably knows the precinct captains in Poughkeepsie. She got a pass when a long-ago aide charged that she had uttered an anti-Semitic slur against him. It helped that he was Baptist...