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...macabre throwback to the '60s, a small southern town on Saturday becomes a flash point for America's unfinished conversation on race. The Ku Klux Klan is staging a rally outside the courthouse in Jasper, Texas, but the Klansmen face the unfamiliar experience of having their activities monitored by shotgun-wielding members of the New Black Panther Party, who plan to protect the town's black citizens. The Klan event is ostensibly intended to condemn the brutal murder of James Byrd, Jr. for which three men with white supremacist links have been charged...
...being planted here. "Your achievements are a window for all the world to see what local democracy has brought to China and what a brighter future you are building," Clinton told a gathering of elected local officials in the village of Xiahe. Of course, Chinese "democracy" might be unfamiliar to Americans -- there's only one political party in the world's most populous country. Still, the recent shift from having local government officials elected rather than appointed by the party, and the reduction of their powers, is a step in a democratic direction. "Party functionaries no longer control a family...
...have a certain stature, but if you don't begin to reach and touch more people, you're going to gradually drop off our priority list.'" So he asked Billington and Foy to create a fully portable stage suitable for special performances aimed at young, TV-oriented viewers unfamiliar with opera. "What does rock 'n' roll do? That was our mandate," Billington explains...
Successful may be an understatement. In capturing its eighth consecutive national title this year, Harvard had to show the true perseverance of a championship team by overcoming the unfamiliar adversity of being an underdog...
Pochoda's heroics almost made up for a season of unfamiliar shortcomings, as Harvard (9-2, 5-1 Ivy) lost twice to the Princeton Tigers, including an 8-1 drubbing in the national finals...