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...unveiled The Annotated Fuld, a large canvas of the embattled Lehman Bros. leader. Raymond rendered Richard Fuld with yellow brushstrokes, his eyes sunken and gazing into the distance, and invited passers-by to adorn the portrait with personal messages. Lehman employees were offered green markers; non-affiliated onlookers got black ones. Some scrawled angry missives: "The banks are next"; "A symbol of greed and arrogance." Others were weirdly aphoristic: "Greed and ego it was"; "Learn to respect the dollar." Even amid the turmoil, some even mustered a bit of a gallows humor: "Hakuna Matata (It Means No Worries)." Raymond...
...February.It’s the latter.And the goal, tallied in the 77th minute of the final on Sunday, February 10, 2008 by Egypt’s immortal Mohamed Aboutrika, sent a country into pandemonium.While the coffee shop turned sports-bar jumped for joy, while the red, white, and black of Egypt’s flag waved from the balconies in the crowded streets of Cairo, I sat and watched. When the final whistle blew, the city erupted. It seemed, I told my friend, that all of Egypt was out tonight, dancing, jumping, and singing in the streets.I had been...
...trying to inject race into his discussion of flashiness. I'm saying that sometimes we talk about race even when we're not talking about race - in presidential politics as well as sports. Sports announcers have at least made an effort to shed their stereotypes; they occasionally describe black players as "scrappy" or "blue collar," adjectives that used to be reserved for whites. But for political pundits, "working class" or "blue collar" or even "small town" voters still means white; blacks have their own category...
...biracial man born before Jim Crow died could come this close to the presidency, but if you believe that contemporary America is color-blind, you probably also believe the Georgia Congressman who recently called Obama "uppity," then claimed he had no idea it was a traditional Southern slur for blacks who didn't know their place. ("Uppity" often modified the slur everyone knows is a slur.) Blacks are still known as "minorities" because this is still a majority white country, and Obama is just as anxious to avoid running as "the black candidate" as McCain is anxious to avoid running...
...past 18 months, Obama has been attacked as a naive novice, an empty suit, a tax-and-spend liberal, an arugula-grazing élitist and a corrupt ward heeler, but the only attacks that clearly stung him involved the Rev. Jeremiah Wright - attacks that portrayed him as an angry black man under the influence of an even angrier black man. (See photos of Barack Obama on the campaign trail here.) (See photos of Barack Obama backstage at the DNC here...