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...Bees is another entry in the long tradition of books and movies about whites being nurtured and schooled by the example of the black underling. (You've heard of Huckleberry Finn? Gone With the Wind?) The novel is set in rural South Carolina in 1964, which is just about the time it would have automatically been turned into an Oscar-nominated movie. The obvious reference point is To Kill a Mockingbird, whose girl narrator, Scout Finch, is 6 to Lily's 14, and whose fictional setting is Maycomb, Ala., instead of Bees' Tiburon, S.C. But that was back when most...
...actually missed the start because we were checking the wind, but we were able to catch up pretty fast to win the race,” Lambert said...
...just the bike but what the company stands for that can make people enjoy the ride too," he says. Heading to the airport on the back of a Buell, I'm beginning to understand. The smooth, hour-long journey along the highway--tunes blaring, my leathers flapping in the wind--was exhilarating but strangely relaxing. I stepped onto the plane feeling just a little bit cooler...
...Iraq. Filkins likened the aftermath of the American army’s successful march into Baghdad to a winning football team’s loss in the fourth quarter of the game, saying that “in the space of just a couple hours, you could feel the wind go out.” At the end of the lecture, audience member Michelle A. Payne, whose brother served in Filkins’s unit, asked Filkins about an episode in his book, in which an excursion by Filkins and his photographer resulted in the death of a marine. Payne...
...late 1990s. When Obama first ran for Illinois state senator in 1995, he attended a campaign event at Ayers' house. In 2001 Ayers donated $200 to Obama's state senator re-election campaign. By the time the two men met, Ayers' days as a Weatherman had long passed. The wind had blown him another...