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...Twenty of the poets are black, including relatively familiar figures such as Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, and Jupiter Hammon. Others are more surprising: Francis Williams, a free black from Jamaica who studied at Cambridge University in the early 1700s; George White, a former slave from Virginia who only learned to read at age 42 yet became a preacher and published author; and the anonymous "Sable Bard" of 1797 who tells his story in verse, from enslavement as a child in Africa, transport to America, and service in the Revolutionary War, to manumission and the struggle to survive as a freeman...
...back down because she does not believe that blacks need the crutch provided by race-conscious policies. For Swain, a deeply devout evangelical Christian, such beliefs are not academic. Now 49, she went from being a high school drop-out and single mother in rural Virginia to a Ph.d and a chair at a leading university. "Somehow, we've got to embrace an American national identity that pulls us together instead of dividing us into warring camps," says Swain, "perhaps through a renewed emphasis on the Judeo-Christian idea of a common creator and the brotherhood...
...pleasure-seeker, he travels ceaselessly, eats and drinks abundantly and lies fluently. Boyd insinuates his hero as an extra into several historical panoramas--the General Strike of 1926, the Spanish Civil War--and has some cheeky fun with celebrity cameos: Picasso appears as a manic Left Bank chatterbox, Virginia Woolf as a venomous cocktail-party boor, and in what amounts to literary incest, Mountstuart indulges in a brief snog with Waugh himself...
...perception of risk is greatest at technology companies. It was far easier to recruit outside directors before the tech-sector collapse, "when there was a huge upside in the stock," says Bobbie Kilberg, president of the Northern Virginia Technology Council, a regional trade group of 1,600 tech firms. These days, potential directors are less willing to sit on the board of any company whose product or service they don't understand. Kilberg says she recently agreed to join a local bank's board but turned down a small software firm. "It just wasn't worth it," she says. Robert...
...Crimson’s distance medley relay team of co-captain Alaina Aguanno, junior Virginia Scott, sophomore Amanda Thornton and freshman Kierann Smith also finished in second place...