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...When chatting about the blog recently, my close friend Rachel, who is melanin-challenged, asked, "What do they mean by 'white people?' I mean, you like some of that stuff, right?" As I waxed socio-economical on how the authors were trying to make a statement about classism and yuppies and liberal mind-traps (#62: Knowing what's best for poor people. "They feel guilty and sad that poor people shop at Wal-Mart instead of Whole Foods, that they vote Republican instead of Democratic... deep down, white people believe if given money and education that all poor people would...
...Sadr. His Mahdi Army had been engaged in weeks of violent clashes with U.S. and Iraqi government forces in the capital and in the southern city of Basra, and many in the capital feared the worst. But on Tuesday afternoon, Sadr suddenly called off the demonstration, declaring in a statement, "I'm calling on the beloved Iraqi people who are willing to demonstrate against the occupation to postpone this demonstration out of my fear for them and my concern for more bloodshed...
...Rove’s presence and the Dems’ statement set of a small tiff between the leaders of the campus political groups...
...staff secretly accessed e-mails sent to the Cambridge Public School Committee, a group that oversees the superintendent, committee members disclosed on Friday. The incident adds fuel to an already contentious debate over the school leader’s contract.Superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn issued a statement yesterday assuming responsibility for giving the two staff members access to e-mails from parents and citizens, and for failing to inform or solicit advice from the school committee. “I gave approval to the suggestion to add the names of two administrative staff to the recipients, and I take full...
...fact that murder was never an option to the jury is a blow to Mohamed Al Fayed, who at the start of the inquest said he would accept the jury's verdict, whatever it was. In a statement read on his behalf immediately after the verdict was delivered, he said he was "disappointed," and that "The French and [British] inquiries were wrong and these inquests prove it." Taking a jab at the coroner, he criticized Baker's "accusations against me," adding "I feel that my character and beliefs... have been on trial." He remains convinced of conspiracy...