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...Hong Kong traveled to America and declared himself to be John Wayne, James Dean, Charles Atlas and the guy who kicked your butt in junior high. In an America where the Chinese were still stereotyped as meek house servants and railroad workers, Bruce Lee was all steely sinew, threatening stare and cocky, pointed finger--a Clark Kent who didn't need to change outfits. He was the redeemer, not only for the Chinese but for all the geeks and dorks and pimpled teenage masses that washed up at the theaters to see his action movies. He was David, with spin...
...people as Jackie did. The only comparable athlete, in my experience, was Joe Louis. The difference was that Louis competed against white men; Jackie competed with them as well. He was taking us over segregation's threshold into a new land whose scenery made every black person stop and stare in reverence. We were all with Jackie. We slid into every base that he swiped, ducked at every fastball that hurtled toward his head. The circulation of the Pittsburgh Courier, the leading black newspaper, increased by 100,000 when it began reporting on him regularly. All over the country, black...
...Still others don't seem to have heard of the disease. Frequently it takes several tries to explain my condition. "So you're taking time off," they insist repeatedly. "Not exactly," I say, "since it's not really time off from anything." "Oh," they respond, with a blank, lost stare...
Classmates say Solomon, whom most people call T.J., came to school on Thursday morning bearing the weight of a break-up with his girlfriend and wearing a determined stare. Stacey Singleton, a junior at Heritage, calls it a "hate look," scary enough that when she spotted Solomon and his rifle as he entered the school, she tried to melt into a phone stall she was using. "I just gripped the phone and knew that something really, really bad was going to start," she says...
...future students as young as six weeks old before heading to work in their Land Rovers and Cherokees, the walls are festooned with posters boosting the values of good character. This month's value is Helpfulness. So as the caregivers diaper and burp their gurgling little charges, the infants stare up at a sign that reads THE SEEDS OF HELPFULNESS BLOOM EARLY...