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...compare their perspectives. The white woman's strongest memory of her maid was of the delicious pralines she made. When I went to speak to the maid, she [remembered] working for this woman when [civil rights activist] Medgar Evers had just been assassinated. Her children were walking down the street in a protest and she was so afraid her employer would turn on the TV and see them and then she would lose...
...York City bus stop is at the intersection of 9th Avenue and 42nd Street. The bus will leave NYC on Fridays at 9:30 a.m., 4:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., on Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., and on Sunday...
...realm of the mind. The good news is that al-Qaeda's throw weight is much diminished; the bad news is that terrorism is now an entrepreneurial arena, with the Internet as its global recruiting station, attracting the lost, the loners, the guy with a coffee cart on Wall Street buying up hair dye and nail-polish remover to blend into bombs, or the polite army major in uniform who took his time, bought his gun and turned it on his comrades...
...While the Bush Administration regarded the withdrawal of Syria from Lebanon in 2005 - as a result of international pressure and Lebanese street protests - as one of its biggest successes in the Middle East, the new Obama Administration has been less aggressive in its backing for the pro-U.S. Lebanese government. Lebanese media also suggest that Saudi Arabia was dismayed that Hariri's Future movement, which had been building a militia with Saudi money, was so easily routed by Hizballah in the May 2008 street fights. Last month, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah traveled to Damascus for a state visit...
...month of more than 60 members of the magazine's sales and advertising departments. For several weeks, Hu had been negotiating with Caijing's publishers over issues including retention of Caijing's name. The new publication she's expected to form will be called Caixin, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news of Hu's resignation...