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...fact, there is hearteningly widespread dismay over a white boy suspended from school five times in the past month for wearing a buckle with a symbol of the Confederate battle flag. Says Herman Wright, who is black and a former head of the school board: "I have never seen anything like this outright display by a student with deep, deep convictions about race...
What happened next was revolutionary, even though the verdict was not surprising for the apartheid South. Emmett's great-uncle Mose Wright testified against Bryant and Milam, a black man pointing out white men as the murderers of a black child. After his testimony, Wright fled Mississippi for his life. Bryant and Milam went on with theirs, acquitted of any crime. But the rest of the country looked at Mississippi justice and shuddered. America had seen a mother's sorrow. Mamie Till Mobley had shipped her son's battered body back to Chicago and allowed his open coffin...
...theses, with topics ranging from FrankLloyd Wright's architecture to Peruvian poets, canbe written on either historical or literaturetopics, or both...
...focused on a few hobbies and building friendships one at a time. Now Dartmouth students have that same chance. Instead of clinging to an outmoded, elitist fraternity system, they can start building real brotherhoods and sisterhoods, open to all. In an interview with Dartmouth's student newspaper, president James Wright asked about the old Greek system, "Can't we do better?" Of course we can; it just takes a little imagination...
...appear smug. Who better than Hillary to fill the media vacuum left by That Woman? And what better way to create a diversion from the ongoing Clintonian sleaze watch, including the newly published allegation of a Clinton sexual assault in 1978 and the possibility that Judge Susan Webber Wright will hold him in contempt for his testimony in the Paula Jones case? For the White House staff, Hillary for Senate is a much needed balm. "Whether it's serious or not," says Clinton spokesman Joe Lockhart...