Word: swathes
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Black America has been lulled to sleep by our four decade-long celebration of baby steps toward racial equality with the Democratic party. It is now time to wake up from this slumber and realize that a sizeable part of black America and a huge swath of the African Diaspora are living a veritable nightmare. Ravaged by AIDS and poverty, exploited by rampant globalization, victimized by violence and political strife, the black underclass is facing what amounts to biological elimination...
Black America has been lulled to sleep by our four decade-long celebration of baby steps toward racial equality with the Democratic party. It is now time to wake up from this slumber and realize that a sizeable part of black America and a huge swath of the African Diaspora are living a veritable nightmare. Ravaged by AIDS and poverty, exploited by rampant globalization, victimized by violence and political strife, the black underclass is facing what amounts to biological elimination...
...residents and Boston politicians, Harvard’s initial entry into the Allston neighborhood—through a series of secret land deals that were divulged in 1997—felt like an invasion. Yet the University seemingly ignored community protestations when it bought a 91-acre swath from the cash-strapped Massachusetts Turnpike Authority last year. Harvard will need the good will of Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino to gain zoning permissions for the Allston development. If the mayor feels that he has been marginalized throughout the planning process, Harvard will find itself in a weaker bargaining position...
...country opposed Bush's Iraq war plan in the United Nations Security Council. Mexicans, whose foreign-policy attitudes are staunchly noninterventionist, applauded Fox - but Bush took it as a betrayal and virtually blacklisted the Mexican leader. But Bush faces a re-election campaign this year, and a larger swath of the traditionally Democratic Latino vote could be decisive in several closely contested states. Though Bush aides deny that political motive, Fox is Bush's amigo again - and in Bush's immigration-reform speech last week, Fox's ideas were suddenly "good" for U.S. border security. "We never stopped being friends...
...know everything. As Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld pronounced, there are "known unknowns," and then there are "unknown unknowns." Some things are actually quite hard to fix because the systems behind them are intricate, complicated and created by humans. New Yorkers and the inhabitants of a whole swath of North America spent a delirious, humid night in the complete dark in August, and for hours no one had a clue why the power grid had crashed or how on earth to fix it. The glitch that guaranteed that the space shuttle Columbia would disintegrate on re-entry occurred at lift...