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...worry about some kid buying cigarettes and not about a bunch of crack dealers on the street..." he says, a bit bemused...
...into a great city. The grandson of slaves, the son of Texas sharecroppers, he broke through racial barriers because there was simply no surrender in him. He bore the abuse that was the price of his success with a majestic dignity that even his most vicious detractors could never crack. Although he never courted the press, and was often criticized by it for his stoic public demeanor, he was one of the ablest politicians I have ever known. He understood that the test of political genius lies in the hard work of building constituencies and forging them into sustainable electoral...
...Crimson had one final crack at the lead late in the quarter, taking the ball at its own 20-yard line off a touchback with 6:25 to play...
...remember, Candace Scott, 35, has suffered from a consuming addiction. Every spare cent goes to feed her habit, and her husband is hooked just as hard. O.K., so collecting items related to Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War general turned President, is not as harmful as, say, crack cocaine. But it is now an obsession turbocharged by technology...
...audience. Walker flits gnomically through space and time to tell the story of an American family and its transformation from a repressed patriarchal unit to a spiritual sorority of free radicals. Fans of the well-focused The Color Purple may not appreciate Walker's looser style or such unintended crack-up lines as "...in the branches of the nearest tree lives the first cousin of your hair...