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...Ture was my friend for 40 years. The thing that touched me most about him was that he loved his black people. He was deeply committed to their plight and worked all his 57 years to improve conditions for African Americans. One of his greatest contributions was the 1966 wake-up call to black Americans, saying that they are "a mighty people" who can and must determine and define their own destiny. As young men, Kwame--then known as Stokely Carmichael--and I worked together in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. We honestly felt that we could topple the racism...
...hardly a revelation that busy prostitutes wind up pregnant from time to time. Some even find that impending motherhood is the wake-up call that spurs them to straighten out their lives. But not Moody, who treated her pregnancies as little more than temporary inconveniences. Even with a swollen belly that turned her streetwise walk into a waddle, Moody could attract customers. "Some men are into pregnant women," she notes dispassionately. Her second baby, Cartez, was born on July 2 nine years ago, and Vanessa was back on the street on the 4th, while her distraught mother and sister Debbie...
...Really we didn't lose that much in the election, but what it did do is it gave us a wake-up call," said Brian R. Smith '02, a member of the club...
...this development occurred in plain view, of course, but until the morning of Aug. 24, 1992, no one seemed to recognize its implications. Hurricane Andrew was not merely a wake-up call; it was a stick of dynamite under the pillow. Prior to Andrew, no one envisioned more than $7 billion in insured losses for a single storm. But after Andrew's landfall, Karen Clark, founder of Applied Insurance Research Inc., in Boston, one of a new breed of "catastrophe modelers," sent an audacious message to her clients estimating insured losses at $9 billion. If Andrew proved to be more...
...Crimson soon showed there was no cause forconcern. Harvard's disappointing loss to theHuskies served as a wake-up call, and the teamproceeded to close out its regular season with asix-game winning streak to capture its thirdconsecutive Ivy League championship and earn itsthird NCAA Tournament berth in four years...