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...black and white, that prejudice no longer has much impact on the lives and fortunes of African Americans. Like most black men, I can testify from personal experience that it does. During the 1970s, when I lived in Montclair, New Jersey, a leafy--and thoroughly integrated--New York City suburb, I was thrown up against a police car and slapped in handcuffs one evening by two white officers--simply because there had been some burglaries in the area. Once the cops established that I was a journalist for a newsmagazine, they apologized and released me, and I decided...
Hillary Clinton's speech to the Nongovernmental Organizations Women's Conference in a suburb of Beijing was such a hot ticket that even Donna Shalala had a hard time getting in. The Health and Human Services secretary and Winston Lord, an assistant secretary of state, were kept outside in the pouring rain for a half an hour until the two soaked Clinton Administration officials were admitted through a side door. Thousands more were kept out as more than 3,000 women packed into a 1,500-seat theater to hear the First Lady urge them to make the goals...
...LADIES! LADIES! YOU GOTTA BUY THIS. THIS IS THE GREATEST INVENTION," Mariann Raftery says loudly, waving a plastic bag of prepared salad greens in the middle of the local A&P in Scarsdale, an affluent suburb just 15 miles north of New York City. Seven well-dressed Japanese women, pens poised over notebooks, nod politely, not entirely sure what to make of this latest piece of American ingenuity. "It's so convenient," Raftery explains. "And now they have cole slaw too." But there are so many more mysteries to ponder at the A&P. Michiko Takai wants to know: "Which...
President Truman learned of the bomb test while in Potsdam, a suburb of burned-out and bombed-out Berlin, where he was meeting with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, leaders of the nations allied with the U.S. in the defeat of Nazi Germany. The news that the atomic bomb actually worked promised to solve in a flash two of Truman's most urgent problems in the Pacific: the ordering of a heavy-casualty land invasion of the Japanese home islands, scheduled to begin Nov. 1, and the necessity of making concessions to Stalin in order to secure Soviet military intervention...
Meet Mother Angelica, 71, improbable superstar of religious broadcasting and arguably the most influential Roman Catholic woman in America. In her day job, Mother Angelica is abbess of Our Lady of the Angels Franciscan monastery in Irondale, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham. More famously, this self-taught telenun is board chairman (she deplores all-inclusive language) of Eternal Word Television Network, which reaches 36.8 million cable-equipped American homes via 1,204 affiliate systems. The largest of America's three all-religion cable networks, Mother Angelica's channel is going international. On Aug. 15, EWTN will begin 24-hour daily...