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South Africa and the Walls of Troy
… Africa and the Walls of Troy The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.                               … of re­ buffs through expulsion from international bodies, and the tolerance of guerrilla activity. Both the … was like the Mediterranean. The principal strategic points were in the hands of the West. It was a linkage …
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Brown’s Faint Revival
… Brown’s Faint Revival We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of … African American and Latino. The home ownership rate—about 26 percent—is the second lowest in the nation. About 41 … “We will make this happen by using our minds, bodies, voices, and hearts to: care for one another, treat …
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Politics: America’s Missing Constitutional Link
… Republicans attempted to do in prior years, but little will come of it because of the powerful interests with heavy … was viewed as a disreputable business, and the perfidies of “factions” (the Founders’ name for political … senator Eugene McCarthy came within a few percentage points of President Johnson in the Democratic primary, …
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Waiting for Exile
… tossed the city into a “national time of mourning” after Comandante Juan Almeida Bosque’s fatal heart attack a few … her group on a bench. “You know, Almeida and all, generals dying, time of mourning. Vaya , vaya , vaya .” “Dropping … Maykel, and his father, Nicolás—​spoke with their bodies: eyebrows rising, mouths gaping with laughter, hands …
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The Haunted Hotels of Los Angeles
… the hotel, finding the Biltmore Bowl by accident, unlocked, completely dark but for the red exit sign. We walked through … Then there’s the Alexandria Hotel, now also apartments, where supposedly Rudolf Valentino still … became sad and washed out, and then at some point, died unglamorous deaths, and yet stubbornly live on. Once …
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The Olfactory Lives of Primates
… guys from Caitland’s office got into this pissing contest, completely soaked a table-cloth doing it. I don’t know why … that can change emotions in the recipient, and in most mammals, more readily than can information from other sensory … (High-tech science: get some women volunteers at known points in their cycles to rub their undeodranted armpits …