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...transplanted European city. So to consider it an Italian community would not only be misrepresenting the Italians across the pond; it would be selling short Boston’s Italian Americans. As we waved goodbye and I followed his wife for a brief tour of the neighborhood, he said in perfect English: “Hey, send me your article when you’re done. Worse comes to worst, I won’t like it. And then I’ll just kill you.” I laughed. “I have friends...
...Christians "who professed faith in Jesus Christ and who believed in segregation, and saw nothing wrong with lynching, saw nothing wrong with Negroes staying in their place," he told Bill Moyers in a PBS interview last week. That experience moved him to leave college for a six-year military tour - first with the Marines, then the Navy. Eventually, he arrived at the University of Chicago's Divinity School...
...potentially worst of all was his association with Wright, particularly after the retired pastor launched what amounted to a media tour and suggested that any efforts that Obama had made to distance himself was posturing. "Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls," Wright said dismissively of his former congregant. Even former President Jimmy Carter, who normally avoids commenting on the presidential race, told CNN that Wright had "really been damaging" to Obama's presidential campaign...
...College’s April Visiting Program allowed more than 900 admitted students this weekend to take a jogging tour of campus, trek to an activities fair in the Quad, and “get yo’ jollies” at one of the many parties organized by student groups. The program, informally referred to as “prefrosh weekend,” gave high school seniors the opportunity to dabble in the Harvard lifestyle, but many felt—especially at night—that their first college experience was not so different from their high school...
Until the question-and-answer portion of his appearance, Wright had been using the multi-city tour to redeem his reputation as a teachable moment. In an hour-long interview with Bill Moyers on PBS last week, Wright discussed in detail the history of the African-American religious tradition and presented a calm, erudite counterpoint to the outrageous caricature that most Americans have seen in the short clips of his sermons on YouTube. His speech to the Press Club continued in the same vein, providing context for what he sarcastically referred to as "the unknown phenomenon of the black church...