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Chicago Tribune | ‘Welcome to the Neighborhood’: Roll out the unwelcome wagon
Another judge, speaking of the black family, discovers “what nice, pleasant and even well-versed people they are.”
Not nice enough, however, to actually win the house. After rejecting the Koreans (too foreign), the witches (too scary), the stripper (too controversial), the tattoo aficionados (too weird-looking) [...]

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Teenager Takes Petition To Downing Street
A British teen is taking 2,000 signed petition cards to Downing Street in London in an effort to keep attention focused on world poverty. It came out of an event sponsored by the Church of England, which has reasons of its own to keep the MakePovertyHistory movement going. What with [...]

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Minnesota Public Radio’s Fitzgerald Theater: A Prairie Home Companion Movie
I thought David was kidding the other morning when he told me about this. It was on one of the NPR weekend news shows - I must have been completely unconscious, or perhaps I was downstairs indulging in Honey Nut Cheerios and fooling around with the [...]

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