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Speaking in his thoughtful, soft-spoken tone, he discusses an incident of cross–burning outside his dorm in February of his freshman year—which had been conducted by his fellow freshmen as a “prank.” The five-foot-high burning cross was placed outside Stoughton Hall, where nine black students lived...
...fellow villagers of Rampasasa on the remote island of Flores say they are descended from a tribe of tiny, hairy folk whom they call "the short people." "We didn't have knives but used rocks," he explains. "We didn't even know how to make fire." Jurubu, a soft-spoken man with close-cropped gray hair, high cheekbones and deeply inset eyes, looks to the 30 or so villagers sitting in a circle around him for confirmation. They nod and grunt assent, and he proceeds to talk about the time their shy ancestors hid themselves from the outside world...
Crowe's Braddock is similarly genuine-a winning blend of simplicity, stubbornness and working-class charm. Rene Zellweger makes do-good times or bad-burying her fears under a soft-spoken feistiness. And Paul Giamatti as Braddock's trainer-manager is a revelation. He's a chipper, wised-up guy who gets Braddock his comeback fight, then guides his rise to the championship bout with Max Baer, played with a menacing charm and sadism by Craig Bierko...
Collins is moderate in more than just her votes: she's soft-spoken and even-keeled. She considers it a proud accomplishment that the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which she chairs, never had a vote that broke along party lines in its work on a bill last year that created a national intelligence director. But being a moderate, in her view, is not always a blessing. "It's difficult at times," Collins said. "I often envy my colleagues on the left and right for whom no vote is hard...
...anything to black America, which is still under assault from the social practices of this society." Bill Cosby's criticisms of black parenting? "A billionaire attacking poor people for being poor. Bill Cosby is a clown. What do you expect? I thought it was unfair of him." His modest, soft-spoken manner belies what is obviously a deep sense of grievance. He describes sitting down at a counter not long ago and watching a white man next to him snatch $2 off the table. "He thinks I'm going to steal his $2. That's reality; that's the world...