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Before the Civil War, Wilmington was a station on the Underground Railroad; today about 5% of its population is black. But its Quaker tradition of tolerance is being tested by uglier habits of mind, because the town has been buffeted by a series of racial incidents. In 1992 a bloody fight broke out between black and white students at an off-campus Wilmington College party. In 1993 and 1995 the Ku Klux Klan staged rallies at the courthouse; though fewer than 50 sympathizers showed up each time, black leaders were understandably concerned--and their fears were heightened last year when...
...script shows some early gems of Puritan "country" humor, including this bit: Earl: "Eddie, thy daughter is uglier than a possum with acne." Eddie: "It is predestined that she be so, to learn humility. Yeeeeeee-haw!" (Audience hangs Earl and Eddie for the sin of play-acting...
Although religious discrimination runs rampant in Worcester, apartheid is a shadowy but pervasive force. On the surface, Coetzee's childhood seems free of apartheid's uglier manifestations. Worcester has a small "coloured" population, consisting mainly of domestic servants, and virtually no blacks. What social conflict Coetzee faces from day-to-day appears mostly as class and not racial conflict: Coetzee is embarrassed by his shoes and natty clothes, contrasted with the scraggly appearance of the local Afrikaaners...
...that I made these vows last year too, or similar ones, and I can see more clearly who I am and who I want to be. And when I walk through the Yard and pass by someone to whom I've been less than kind, I remember other, far uglier vows that I've taken, vows where I said I would never speak to that person again, or that I would dislike them forever, or that I would get back at them for something I thought they did--and then I am grateful for the legal loophole, for the tiny...
Custody battles are never cute, but when the progeny in question have lucrative careers, they can be all the uglier. So it's a relief on all sides that Christopher ("Kit") Culkin conceded custody of his son MACAULAY CULKIN and his siblings to their mother, Patricia Brentrup, just before a nasty trial was to have begun. The fight for control of the children and their careers has nearly bankrupted the former couple, although Mac still has most of his millions...