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Across the U.S. nonwhite travelers tell similar tales of police harassment. According to the A.C.L.U. report, the stretch of Interstate 95 from Florida to New York is especially notorious. On I-95 in Maryland, blacks made up 17% of motorists but 73% of those stopped and searched. Last year a class-action suit accused Maryland state troopers of targeting black drivers. In Illinois, where Hispanics are just 8% of the population, they represented 30% of the drivers stopped by police. "It's really deeply ingrained behavior that is going to be hard to change," says Reggie Shuford, an A.C.L.U. staff...
...second day of rehearsal my manager called me and said, "They decided to go in another direction." I said, "Tell me what direction. I'll meet them there...
...educator, I was appalled by Bochard's remark. Well, Ms. Bochard, before I bring a gun to school, could you please tell me where I would keep it? On my person? In my desk drawer? Sure, it's scary sometimes to think about what could happen, but how much more scary actually to have a gun in the classroom. FLORA CAMAJ Gilbert, Ariz...
...feminism today: the battle for the vote was for her a battle for the bedroom. She wrote, "We want to help women...We want to gain for them all the rights and protection that laws can give them. And, above all, we want the good influence of women to tell to its greatest extent in the social and moral questions of the time. But we cannot do this unless we have the vote and are recognised as citizens and voices to be listened to." Her plea to the court in 1912 ringingly concluded, "We are here, not because...
...heroes of the old epic kind, dedicated to colossal purposes, tight of jaw and stiff of upper lip. That was George Mallory, who said most famously in 1924 that he was climbing Mount Everest "because it is there." But if he ever reached the summit, he never lived to tell the tale. Hillary and Tenzing were two cheerful and courageous fellows doing what they liked doing, and did, best, and they made an oddly assorted pair. Hillary was tall, lanky, big-boned and long-faced, and he moved with an incongruous grace, rather like a giraffe. He habitually wore...