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...husband, Martin Luther King, Jr,, was a man who had hoped to be a Baptist preacher to a large, Southern, urban congregation," she wrote in the introduction to her 1983 book, 'The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.' "Instead, by the time he died in 1968, he had led millions of people into shattering forever the Southern system of segregation of the races.... Above all, he brought a new and higher dimension of human dignity to black people's lives...
...this new seminar course, but students can be sure to find plenty of other wholesome material that might draw them away from old “Sex and the City” reruns for a few hours. With the goal of understanding “interrelationships among architecture, urban space, the body, and gendered identities,” the course will draw upon an intellectually stimulating spectrum of research, ranging from film history to geography to queer theory...
...focusing on Japan's urban underclass, Tatsumi's stories feature many characters traditional to crime melodrama - pimps, prostitutes and hitmen - but without the glamour often associated with them. They toil and suffer in their labor as miserably as their counterparts in the "straight" world. The pimp, for example, begins to hate himself for sponging off of his prostitute girlfriend. So he runs off with another girl to the country to start a new life. On the way she says, "I'll work hard and take care of you," as he looks at her askance. Who among us hasn't made...
CLOSED. The independent-counsel investigation into possible tax violations by HENRY CISNEROS, 58, Housing and Urban Development Secretary under President Clinton; after 10 years, making it the longest independent-counsel probe in U.S. history; in Washington. Begun after Cisneros' ex-mistress alleged he had lied to the FBI about money he had given her, the inquiry continued even though Cisneros pleaded guilty in 1999 to the misdemeanor of making false statements to the bureau. It finally ended with the release of David Barrett's 474-page report, in which the prosecutor says a cover-up by Clinton-era officials prevented...
...While back in Boston, she remembered her dislike for the urban lifestyle. “I hate living in a city and working nine to five,” she says...