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...QUOTE LARRY MILLER, A WHITE MAN who owns a Chicago hot-dog stand, as saying, "I've never known racism to be an excuse for murder.'' But for years during and after slavery, African Americans were killed because of the color of their skin. They were lynched, raped and torn from their families, and the excuse was racism. When are white Americans going to look beyond race and appreciate African Americans for who they are instead of judging them by appearances? America was built on the backs of African Americans. I hope that very soon white America will acknowledge that...
...There's a stigmatizing effect on women when they're told that they can't handle the stress, that they'll cry, that women need to be built up, not torn down, which is the Citadel's main defense," Vojdik said...
...which had been clocked at a near record 185 m.p.h. a few hours earlier, hadn't dropped to a howling but less than apocalyptic 144 m.p.h. when landfall occurred. Or if the tens of thousands of people living along the sugar-white beaches of Florida's panhandle hadn't torn themselves away from TV coverage of the Simpson verdict in time to flee the hurricane headed their...
...novels, it can-and does-provide a more immediate sense of the feeling of daily life. The film goes out of its way to show us that, when these characters go on a long walk through the fields, they come back wet and dirty, their hems torn and stained. At night, there isonly candlelight, casting everything into shadow. And, in sharp contrast to usual Hollywood practice, nobody looks like a model; the women wear no make-up, the men are paunchy and badly shaven. The film also benefits from some finely drawn minor characters. Louisa Musgrove, her brother Charles...
...this time last year, the council was reeling from a strife-torn spring in which its vice president was nearly impeached, and then censured and de-censured over three weeks; it was forced to invalidate a referendum it ran because of numerous administrative improprieties; it drew heavy criticism for not heeding a student petition and referendum calling for numerous structural reforms; and a council executive resigned amid impropriety charges after he tape-recorded a telephone conversation with a political rival...