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...Same Whine, New Bottle: New Gingrich now has competition for title of "Politician Who has Made the Most Impetuous Move after a Perceived Snub." The former Speaker said he'd shut down the government after getting a bad seat on Air Force One. Jeffords changed the power structure of the Senate because he wasn't invited to a teacher of the year ceremony...
...form of racial discrimination. Japan wanted more than anything to be taken seriously and treated as equal by the other imperial nations. When Western powers refused to endorse a statement of racial equality at the Versailles Conference in 1919, this was felt in Tokyo as a direct snub, which, in fact...
...begin to measure the way race is typically assessed in our society. In my day-to-day life, it is thousands of unofficial, unsolicited enumerators who make the call on my race by way of offhand remarks, furtive glances, head wiggles, bullhorned street sermons, the pointed embrace, the casual snub, the kiss, the oversight, the intimacy...
...mother will not talk to her. "If you are not even accepted by your own family," says Magwazi, the volunteer home-care giver from Durban's Sinoziso project who visits Laetitia, "then others will not accept you." When Laetitia ventures outdoors, neighbors snub her, tough boys snatch her purse, children taunt her. Her own kids are tired of the sickness and don't like to help her anymore. "When I can't get up, they don't bring me food," she laments. One day local youths barged into her room, cursed her as a witch and a whore and beat...
...dropping onto the grimy concrete floor. We stare at the jumbled heap of handguns, which I know from Joe, the arms trader who has brought me, are either Brownings or Smith & Wessons. Some have seen long service, the butts chipped and scored. Joe ignores these, instead picking up a snub-nosed Browning, still shiny with gun oil. In less than a minute he strips it down to four component parts, inspects the barrel and reassembles the pistol, slotting the parts back together with a series of clunks. Outside, we can hear the muffled stomp of boots and the cries...