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...more like a man from the future. While his white opponents stood and slugged in the style of the bare-knuckle era, he weaved the way Muhammad Ali would later do. Outside the ring, the handsome, savvy and charismatic Johnson prefigured today's celebrity athletes (and polarizing black stars like Kobe Bryant and Mike Tyson). He wore tailored suits, drove custom cars and slept with many women, white women in particular. His boxing wins drew death threats and caused riots, but it was his sex life that most outraged whites, and many blacks. In 1913 he was tried under...
...helped protect Ukraine from the impact of the Russian financial meltdown in 1998 and established the Ukrainian hryvnia as a stable currency. He then transformed himself into a low-key Premier, appointed in December 1999 in a deal to dissuade him from running for the presidency against Kuchma. He stood by Kuchma during allegations against the regime of corruption and murder of political opponents. The most scandalous allegation concerned the disappearance and subsequent murder of Heorhiy Gongadze, an investigative journalist who had been deeply critical of the Kuchma administration. Opposition leaders openly accused the President of having a hand...
...believe in that vision. That means taking some risks. Dean captured people’s hearts with his candor and conviction. Sure, Democrats loved his opposition to the Iraq war, while his NRA-friendly views on gun control… not so much. But we respected him because he stood by his beliefs. He kept it real, and his straight talk inspired people who were turned off by politics-as-usual. He wasn’t Bill (or Tupac), but Dean drew rallies of ten to fifteen thousand people in the summer of 2003, six months before a primary election...
Bongo drums silenced the crowd as the Kuumba singers returned for the show’s second half, which opened with a powerful reading. Then in the most stunning moment of the night, one singer stood alone on the bleachers and called out while singing voices slowly marched in from all sides, uniting in a huge sound. Then together, they repeatedly called out the word “power.” The crowd was dead silent for the first time during the show, rapt in complete admiration of the magnitude of the group’s entrance...
When Turnbull moved into Thayer in 1967, he immediately stood against the grain, according to his roommate Jonathan K. Walters...