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(nydailynews.com) I should have taken a stand. I didn’t.
It was the year 2000. I was interviewing for what I then considered to be the most important job of my life: Miss America 2001.
I had spent the past three years dreaming about and preparing for the opportunity. I studied world news and politics. I became a [...]

(dailynews.com) “…Rodney King,” says longtime African-American activist Danny Bakewell, “was merely really the straw that broke the camel’s back.”
Bakewell and others say King was the symbol of the two cultures that had historically co-existed in Los Angeles and of the increasingly noticeable inequalities in virtually every aspect of life – inequalities that suddenly could be [...]

PARIS (Reuters) — Sitting in a cafe near the Champs Elysees, the 26-year-old French-born woman of Algerian descent looks like any other Parisian. But two months ago, she did something none of her friends have done.
She had her hymen re-sewn, technically making her a virgin again.
“I’m glad I had it done,” said the woman, who [...]