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Williams, the author of Eyes on the Prize, a history of the civil rights movement, recounts the now familiar saga of Marshall's step-by-step assault on Jim Crow as chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. But Williams also provides fresh insights into Marshall's ruthless role in the organization's tortured internal politics. Marshall had a hand in ousting not only W.E.B. DuBois, one of the N.A.A.C.P.'s founders, for his ties to communists, but also executive secretary Walter White, for committing the cardinal sin of marrying a white woman...
...Improvement must be step-by-step...but as of this moment, Bosnia-Herzegovina is strangled by its three parliaments. Political battles rage as [ethnic] Serbians try to dismantle Bosnia, while Muslims and [ethnic]Croats try to keep the federation together," he said...
...avoid getting blood spattered on your clothing. You'll want to use a silencer, which you can easily make from common hardware. And aim for the eye sockets; a shot anywhere else in the head might leave the victim alive. Such is the wisdom of Hit Man, a step-by-step guide to succeeding in the paid-killer trade. Author Rex Feral, a pen name that's ersatz Latin for "king of the wild animals," insists that this $10 murder-for-hire manual provides a public service. Sometimes, Feral explains, a hit man is the only means...
...company's Maggipinto: "Now 26 is our emerging market, and as of this year we have begun seriously focusing on being on trend," she says. "On trend" has meant offering its best-selling stainless-steel toaster in Gen X-friendly pastels like green, yellow and orange, along with easy step-by-step products like gourmet cake mixes...
...chose Laura Ingersoll, a lower-echelon prosecutor in the department's public-integrity section, to head the politically sensitive investigation. From the start there were tensions between Ingersoll and the FBI agents she worked with. Building on her experience with low-level government graft, she wanted to construct a step-by-step case, starting with small players like the Buddhist nuns who gave questionable donations at a Democratic fund raiser and leading from there to higher-ups. FBI Director Louis Freeh, through his man on the task force, Jeffrey Lampinski, was pushing to go simultaneously after top players...