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...cousin has forced me to think about this national crisis in a different light. I have had little time to mourn the victims of last Tuesday’s tragedy because now I have to worry about the backlash against my family and friends who have dark skin or foreign-sounding names...
...Maybe they didn’t mean any harm, but using racial slurs are seeds of ignorance that we are now seeing manifested as hate crimes against people with brown skin,” he added...
...getting the best ingredients and not screwing it up." He spends much of his time developing relationships with micropurveyors--a commercial pilot who grows hearts of palm, a scholar who Fed-Exes her Maine lobsters to him. Then he focuses on the details: squeezing the moisture out of fish skin; steeping a lobster so he can cook it without the shell; straining everything over and over. "You look at a fish and you realize it was alive, and you respect the life of that fish and make sure you get the best out of it," he says...
...after the operation. "I don't exactly know, it's never been done before," he replied. But real life isn't always like the movies. When I spoke with Barnard a month ago, he was a lonely man, divorced from his third wife. He had lost his looks to skin cancer. But he could still think back and laugh at his moment of fame. "For a lot of people I was too good to be true," he said. The truth is, Chris Barnard, who dared to go into the unknown, opened a magic door for people who are now walking...
...West: capital punishment in particular and law enforcement in general are bringing together black and white artists as few issues have since apartheid. The New York City police shooting of African immigrant Amadou Diallo created a mini-genre of tribute songs--Springsteen's heartfelt if monotonous American Skin, Wyclef Jean's lilting Diallo and Erykah Badu's oblique A.D. 2000. The justice system may be to the rebel music of the 21st century as the military...