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...right to be inflamed against the white establishment, which at one point sentenced him to hard labor on a chain gang as punishment for his early civil rights protests. And he had every reason to be embittered by his black allies, for their acquiescence in the gay baiting. Yet somehow he rose above both. In one telling incident, he completed his sentence on the chain gang by writing a conciliatory letter to the sadistic white officer who ran the prison. Somehow, Rustin never succumbed to the anger that was his right; his spirit remained as light and as positive...
...president of the Council to pester national governments to deliver what they've promised. The new deal implies that a figure chosen by the heads of government (as the Commission President is currently) will have more standing to cajole capitals into compliance if he is somehow separate from the Commission bureaucracy. Instead of caving in to the idea that what issues from Brussels is bad, they would be better off clarifying the path by which popular will becomes European law. In place of an elegant plan, Chirac and Schröder offer a highway project - a paving over...
...listening for the first footsteps of a recovery, are looking anew for winners in the post-bubble era. That we were no longer (or not yet) living in Steve Case's world of set-top universes and double-digit growth rates has been (painfully) obvious for two years. But somehow, it seemed important that Case, in deed if not in word, admit...
...GOOGLE Finally, an Internet search engine that works as a verb--as in "Before I go out with a new guy, I always Google him." Somehow "Yahooed him" never worked...
...next day, Cooper told the head of the audit committee about her findings, but she still held out hope that there was a reasonable explanation. She and her team began looking for ways to somehow justify what they had found in the books. Finally, they confronted WorldCom's controller, David Myers, who admitted he knew the accounting could not be justified, according to an internal-audit memo...