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...resident fellows are from Harvard: Lisa M. Gates, who is writing about "Images of the African and African American in Modern German Literature and Culture," and Michael Vorenberg, who is working on "Final Freedom: The 13th Amendment in History and Memory...
While the Brazilians paid lip service to the Americans before their semifinal match, most felt the same way that Brazil's TV Globo sportscaster Galvao Bueno did. "This is going to be rout," Bueno told viewers. Indeed, it looked as if he might be right in the 13th minute, when Juninho feathered a free kick from the left side of the penalty area and Aldair broke free to head the ball past Friedel. But Brazil would never score again. And the U.S., which seemed tentative and tired in the first half, picked up the pace in the second. When Brazilian...
...version that transcends even Jones' rapturous solo. Steal Away and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot are played with a kind of hushed delicacy, much as written, although Haden says there were "a couple of times we looked at each other and said, 'Forgive us, Lord, for that flatted 13th.'" They blow away all the encrusted sanctimony from We Shall Overcome, rediscovering the splendor of its pride, and find a perfect ecumenical grace in Danny Boy. "Initially I was a little apprehensive about the format," Jones admits. "We were unsure as to how people would accept spirituals played in the same context...
...CAME TO PASS LAST WEEK THAT 219 YEARS after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all men are created equal, 132 years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, 41 years after the Supreme Court struck down segregation and three months after Mississippi ratified the 13th Amendment, the Southern Baptist Convention finally got around to admitting that slavery is sinful and asked forgiveness from blacks for its historic role in defending segregation...
...This is my 13th honorary degree, but this oneis really special, because, firstly, I was astudent there and [because] the pomp andcircumstance is certainly different from any ofthe degrees I have," she said Tuesday...