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The Central Point

08-05-14 – 08:41:am

Brent Staples in the today’s NYT:
But Central Point, [Va.,] which had been a visibly mixed-race community since the 19th century, was home to a secret but paradoxically open interracialism. The community’s story goes a long way toward explaining how [Mildred and Richard Loving] thought about race and why they behaved as they did.
This is opinion [...]

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McCain vs Obama, round one

08-05-13 – 10:48:pm

Mr. Kerrey: “Mr. McCain is getting an honorary degree. He was invited to speak. First was Barak Obama. Both say yes and/or both say no.”
Jean Sara Rohe’s prebuttal of McCain’s commencement speech, and her later explanation. McCain chief of Staff Mark Salter: “The only person you have succeeded in making look like an idiot is [...]

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