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'Supreme Courtship' by Christopher Buckley
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHE MOST exhausting part of a satirist's work has to be out-racing the truth. How can you be out-of-the-box outrageous about, say, a Supreme Court nomination, when reality has already outpaced you? When anybody can hunt through the C-SPAN archive and find...Tags: Elections, Corporate Crime, Justice System, Delaware, Books and Magazines
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Words speak louder than LPGA actions
Sentinel ColumnistThe LPGA always wanted to be compared to the NFL, the NBA and the PGA Tour. But the KKK? Starting next year it will require players to speak English. That is an increasingly alien tongue in an organization that has 121 international players. As much as...Tags: Golf, National Basketball Association, Basketball, Employees, PGA Tour
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GOP leaders frantic about committeeman-elect with alleged racist ties
Palm Beach Politics | Sun-Sentinel BlogsPalm Beach County Republican Party leaders raced through GOP rulebooks Wednesday afternoon to find ways to keep Derek Black, an alleged racist, from taking office as a GOP committeeman. They think they found one: They say Black didn???t meet......Tags: Election Day, Elections, Parties and Movements, Local Elections, Government
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THIS DATE IN HISTORY
1831: Former slave Nat Turner led a violent insurrection in Virginia. (He was later executed.) 1878: The American Bar Association was founded in Saratoga, N.Y. 1944: The United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and China opened talks at Dumbarton Oaks...Tags: Virginia, Dwight David Eisenhower, United Nations, Hawaii
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Obama vs. the lunatic fringe
So you think the chorus of white hate groups is seething with rage that Barack Obama could become president? Think again. Members of the knuckle-dragging set are taking a rosier view, judging by their Internet posts. They say the possibility of a...Tags: New York Times, Elections, Population, Clubs and Associations, Barack Obama
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Flag Hasn't Always Been On Pedestal – Or A Pin
American flags will be in abundance when the Democratic National Convention opens Monday in Denver. I suspect that no one will mention the denunciation earlier this year of presidential candidate Barack Obama for not wearing a flag lapel pin ("What's he...Tags: Elections, American Revolutionary War, National or Ethnic Minorities, Slavery, Political Candidates
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Page: Fear, anger, resentment ... and Obama
So you think the chorus of white hate groups out on the lunatic fringe is seething with rage that Barack Obama could become president? Think again. Much of the knuckle-dragging set takes a rosier view, judging by their Internet posts. They say the...Tags: New York Times, Elections, Newspapers, Clubs and Associations, Barack Obama
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Sometimes satire's as subtle as a thunderstorm
The movie " Tropic Thunder" spreads insult and caricature like napalm across our social sensibilities. It puts an actor in blackface and portrays a Jewish producer as an amoral money grubber. But it's the repeated use of the word "retard"—the "R-...Tags: Ben Stiller, Culture, Dustin Hoffman, Michelle Obama, Multi-Sport Events
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Gangs & the Klan
In his book "The Bloody Shirt: Terror after Appomattox," Stephen Budiansky quotes this passage from Maj. Lewis Merrill, commanding the federal troops in Yorkville, S.C., in 1871: "All the others, while freely telling me all they knew of the facts, and...Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Crimes, Gang Activity, Yorkville, Murder
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We stole this idea. Or did we? Clever words are nothing new
William Shakespeare, you're a criminal. Well, sort of. You're at least a plagiarist—borrowing characters and plots without proper attribution. Our conception of plagiarism, including using words from another source, is largely modern and academic....Tags: Culture, Naperville, John Coltrane, John McCain, Laurence Sterne
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'Hollywood Under Siege' by Thomas R. Lindlof
Special to The TimesJuly 24, 2008 There are moments in cultural history, notes Thomas Lindlof in a phrase typical of his fluent but never fussy prose, "of gathered tension." Such a moment came with the 1988 release of Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ," an...Tags: Minority Groups, Paul Schrader, Salman Rushdie, Movies, National or Ethnic Minorities
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Davie apartment manager kept out black applicants, according to lawsuit
South Florida Sun-SentinelA manager at a Davie apartment complex turned away African-American applicants, then tried to use the lack of black tenants to appeal to whites, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the U.S. Justice Department. The suit accuses C.F. Enterprises...Tags: Broward County, Justice System, Population, Trials, Minority Groups
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