Word: weak
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...blacks, going back into baseball's past means recalling something called white baseball and something else called black baseball, which was meant to exist under conditions that were inferior to the white version. Even the integration of baseball, symbolized by Robinson, reminds blacks that their institutions were weak and eventually had to be abandoned. As the controversies over reparations for slavery and the Confederate flag have shown, it is difficult to sell African Americans the American past as most Americans have come to know...
...truth, Zimbabwe's opposition remains weak. The main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (M.D.C.), peaked in 2002, when leader Morgan Tsvangirai polled 42% to Mugabe's 56% in presidential elections. Since then the anti-Mugabe movement has foundered because of infighting and intimidation. Mugabe has unleashed a campaign of beatings, mass arrests and shootings of his political opponents. On March 11, state police attacked a joint M.D.C.-Christian march. Tsvangirai was taken into custody and beaten savagely. Since 2000, Mugabe has also encouraged mobs to invade farms owned by the country's remaining white residents, who number...
...especially toward the end, the quickest of halfbacks, but he had every other quality a player could wish for, not least an unerring sense for where a defense was weak. A footballer among athletes, he was inventive, fearless and maybe the toughest of the tough. Born in Cessnock, New South Wales, to a coal-miner father, he played the 1997 grand final with a punctured lung amid reports that he was risking death. Yet he performed without a hint of apprehension, setting up the try that gave his beloved Newcastle their first premiership...
Diversity and Distinction continued to print one or two advertisements in each issue in a weak parody of the layout of a healthy publication. The magazine was no longer receiving any money for the advertisements, which were usually dated, so they were included purely for appearance’s sake...
...descent, Madahar captures birds visiting feeders—in Framingham, Massachusetts, no less. While laudable that the exhibition brings together the diverse works of photographers in one forum, the common thread among the photographs is the artists’ shared ethnicity ultimately seems to be too weak a basis on which to center a collection...