Word: withing
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The furor over Eduard Shevardnadze's resignation had the air of a dry run for a much bigger event that suddenly seemed entirely plausible: Mikhail Gorbachev himself quits in disgust or exhaustion or defeat, and the world is abruptly confronted not just with a new Soviet leader but a new...
The Hamptons said goodbye to the South on their wedding day in 1960. "He was muzzled down, the black man, muzzled down when it came to the white man," says Joseph Hampton. "Like a child abused by his parents, he'd act so scared, you know." But if segregation drove...
In one sense, the South offers to some of its black refugees nothing different from what it does to other retirees looking for a slow, peaceful life. "On Sundays you can hear a pin drop anywhere in the city," says Eugene Dykes, 65. Six years ago, he returned to Columbia...
On the road to Marion, there are posters trumpeting the Louisiana Senate candidacy of David Duke, the ex-Klansman who lost last October's nonpartisan primary but won an estimated 60% of the white vote. Joseph Hampton sees nothing alarming in this. From his post-emigre perspective, he feels Louisianians...
California may have given Southern blacks a chance to make a comfortable living -- Hampton pulled in $50,000 a year with overtime making parts for Northrop Aircraft -- but its residents kept a businesslike distance. "Neighbors are very hard to find in California unless there's money behind it," he says...