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...eventually immersed himself in his Christian faith, encouraging whites and blacks to attend each other's church services. James too has long forgiven Farley and Sims, but he says he found real meaning in Virgil's death one night years later, in the '60s, when his car got stuck in a ditch on the same dark Docena-Sandusky Road. Two young white men pulled up and approached him, "and I thought, Oh, no, it's all gonna happen again." But the men helped him pull his car out. "I asked them if I owed 'em anything," James says. "They said...
...Phong Nha, we get stuck at a roadblock. The local People's Committee chairman-who, it must be said, has only a few strands of hair, slicked down over his head-refuses to grant us permission to travel the western fork of the highway, even though construction is nearly finished. Mr. Truong surprises us by talking the guard at the government checkpoint into letting us through. The road lies between a stream and a cliff overgrown with ferns. It offers some of the most stunning scenery we've seen, but the construction workers-who insist we join them...
...Unlike his administration colleagues, Cheney last weekend didn't actually conclude that Saddam wasn't involved. He cited a number of alleged connections between Iraq and al-Qaeda - some of them hotly disputed - and concluded, simply, that "we just don't know." And, if anything, he stuck fast to the suggestion that the invasion of Iraq was a response to 9/11, characterizing it as "a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11." Condi Rice made...
...ashamed to tell you I really need some warm clothes and shoes if you please. They never give me anything in this three year [sic]." A 14-year-old Syrian wrote, "I am maybe still young but I hate my life because inside this jail I'm stuck and maybe no one is going to help...
...side of this chasm are companies stuck in an inwardly-focused business logic that emphasizes concentration, command/control, cost and efficiency. It was invented a century ago to mass manufacture goods for mass consumers with very different needs from people today. This approach, known as “managerial capitalism,” was enormously successful for decades, raising the standard of living for many. But its very success produced a new “society of individuals,” people like you and me who experience themselves as unique actors and not as passive members of a mass audience...