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...well known, such as the Civil Rights movement’s early associations with Communist and Socialist political parties; its leaders’ personal relations with presidents (A. Phillip Randolph and Lyndon Johnson had their fair share of meetings); and how the fight for equality was undermined by a vicious cycle of unfair, false perceptions over which black Americans had no control. Sugrue strives to connect the struggles for rights in the North and South. It was Northerners’ success in gaining access to public buildings—such as movie theaters and restaurants—that helped...
...violence was vicious. Ibrahim Saleh Hassan did not get angry as he watched his home looted and burned down by an angry mob, or when he when he found out later that all 31 vehicles at his car dealership had been torched. His anger finally did come when he realized that his seven year-old son had seen the mob kill the family's four dogs before the child's eyes. Hassan now wonders what will become of their once peaceful, ethnically and religiously mixed city. "My fear is that they will put us behind walls and segregate us like...
...Martin 46.8% and Libertarian candidate Allen Buckley with 3.4%. Right now Martin trails Chambliss in polls by as many as five percentage points. The Martin campaign says that speculation that Martin is trailing because blacks aren't drawn to support him without Obama in sight is "one of the vicious campaign tactics Chambliss is famous for." Chambliss, for his part, has a reputation for merciless politicking. He rose to power in 2002 by playing on voters' post-9/11 fears, declaring that Democratic incumbent Max Cleland, a triple amputee and Vietnam veteran, would be soft on Osama bin Laden...
...also worth asking what sort of effect redemptions are having on the fund itself. Funds that buy and sell the stocks of large companies should have a fairly easy time getting out of positions, says Kinnel, but funds that focus on less-liquid sectors can wind up in a vicious cycle of having to sell holdings at fire-sale prices. There are a number of reopening high-yield bond funds; those might be worth staying away from for the moment. (Read about Hedge Funds: How the Smart Money Looked Dumb...
...policy wonk in the sort of rough political climate that would normally eat people like him for breakfast. His speech after the attacks was criticized for appearing meek and helpless, and his critics are probably right. What I see though, is a man wary of the same vicious cycle of Pakistan-baiting, worsening cross-border relations, and “tough security measures” that generate the sort of hatred that breeds even more terrorists. He knows his party might lose to the BJP and its allies in a few months, and he knows what that could mean...