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Losing Your Cool in America
Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. had a very bad day. After a long trip home from China, where he was filming his new PBS documentary, “Faces of America,” the Harvard professor was probably looking forward to a little rest. Instead, he was arrested outside of his own Cambridge, Massachusetts home. The official reason for his…
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The Ugly Green Monster
This is how I knew from the very beginning that my mother loved me: Every morning, like clockwork, she would pull out the Green Monster, and every morning, as soon as I saw the thing, I would turn the other way and run. She would chase me around the living room of our brownstone with…
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