Word: talese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But some stories are so deeply embedded in a culture that like black holes, they have the power to overwhelm and devour lesser tales that stray into their fierce field of gravity. Tawana's narrative--a messy, lesser tale that in a society uncontaminated by race hate would have been...
Which is bad news for Ward Connerly and his allies in the anti-affirmative action movement, who have prospered in recent years because the N.A.A.C.P. ceded them the moral high ground. Almost all efforts to increase minority participation in the workplace and on campus have been redefined by opponents as...
The idea, well, it began with a man. Stephen Arterburn, who owns 10% of New Life Clinics and is paid a salary of $160,000 plus stock options, had offered a program of New Life seminars, which failed dismally. "Those were seminars where you had to admit you had a...
On Aug. 7, 1873, he sailed for San Francisco, taking with him Emma Walters, a young German-born woman he had married the previous week, as well as a four-year-old, brown-skinned boy named Alexander, whom Christoph claimed to have adopted. Eventually they made their way to upstate...
Smoke Signals, which is adapted from some of his own short stories by Sherman Alexie and directed by Chris Eyre, obviously wants to get at primal stuff. And in its little way it does. But the largest pleasure of this very small film, which is being promoted as the first...