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...racial resentments. In the past five years or so, there has been a welcome and clear attempt to grapple more directly with the question of race. Figures like Ward Connerly, the black campaigner against affirmative action, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, public servants like Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, and a whole bevy of neoconservative thinkers have embraced a color-blind politics that makes a sincere effort to reach out to minorities. In opposition to the racial groupthink of the far left and the bigotry of the far right, this conservatism has sought to uplift individuals regardless of race...
...Women tend to have to account for their time more than men do," says Elizabeth Long, a sociology professor at Rice University who has studied women's book groups. "It makes an exit more legitimate if you can say, 'I'm getting together to play bunco or bridge' rather than 'I'm going...
...broader national opinion as they preside over what they hope will be a societal funeral for black self-determination and African identification. Unfortunately, recruitment for this effort occurs on both conscious and subconscious levels. Consider who attains mainstream visibility on a daily basis: Alan Keyes, Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice, and J.C. Watts...
...DIED. STAN RICE, 60, American poet and painter; from brain cancer; in New Orleans. Rice, the husband of Interview with a Vampire novelist Anne Rice, won several awards for his seven collections of poetry, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Academy of American poets and the Joseph Henry Jackson Award...
...welcome visitors with a cup or more of ruou, no matter what time of day. Locally brewed by the ethnic minorities in the highlands, there are almost as many kinds of ruou (pronounced zyoo)?as there are hill tribes. Notorious for packing a punch, plain ruou is made from rice and is either clear or red, depending on the brew. More exotic, though, are the ones containing some not-so-secret ingredients: whole pickled cobras, monkey parts or any other animal that will fit in a jar. Each variety is said to have specific medicinal powers. Gecko is purported...