Word: webb
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...uniform" was apparently his skin color. Thill's "war," of course, existed only in his head. Or did it? Last week, after attacks on civilians and police by short-haired haters that left two people dead, one paralyzed and parts of the city looking like siege zones, Mayor Wellington Webb felt the need to pledge that "we are not going to give up the streets of Denver." Residents wondered whether their city had become ground zero for a new Aryan offensive...
Every day, the experience of Judy Cox, a kindergarten teacher at Reagan Webb Mading school in Houston, illustrates how phonics instruction can help the most disadvantaged students. Mading is in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods; 96% of the pupils are African American. Many come from homes that do not contain a single book. For 10 minutes a day, Cox does exercises that develop phonemic awareness. She goes around and around the class, sounding words out, breaking them into phonemes, then reassembling, or "blending," them. "Cuh-ast," she says, "cast. Fuh-ill, fill." And how well...
...revolutionary change in how women are viewed. A woman's status has been elevated from appendage of a husband to full U.S. citizenship, socially and occupationally. The 20th century should be called the Century of the Woman. Please give this some thought when compiling your list. ALICE SAVAY WEBB Houston...
Instead of asking what the government knew about contra drug dealing and when it knew it, the big papers set out to prove, in the words of L.A. Times Washington bureau chief Doyle McManus, that "most of the things that are new [in Webb's stories] aren't true, and most of the things that are true aren't new." Part of that effort entailed assigning black reporters to write stories implying that blacks believe the worst about government actions because they're paranoid. Obviously, the popularity of conspiracy theories in black America is a valid subject for journalistic inquiry...
...black reporters, including myself, quickly discovered how difficult it was to hold the middle ground. Some of my colleagues say white editors chastised them for insisting that Webb's series, while overblown, raised disturbing questions that needed investigation. At the same time, some African Americans pressured black reporters to forget their qualms and swallow the series whole hog. A lot of us were vilified on black talk-radio shows for arguing that the wild speculations of conspiracy theorists like Dick Gregory deserve no more credence than the CIA's self-serving denials...