Race or Class?

“I’m sorry sir, the card is declined”, said the middle aged Arab looking man with a twinkle in his eye I didn’t quite appreciate. I was at Thanasi’s, my former favorite liquor store, trying to put a $20 bottle of vodka on my credit card. I knew

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A hundred chairs plastered with pink slips were set up in front of the Baltimore Sun today as the centerpiece of a protest against the latest staff cuts at the paper. It was a clever bit of street theater. But was it a good idea?

The shares of Gannett, Lee Enterprises, McClatchy and New York Times Co. have fallen so low that the companies have become candidates for transactions that could convert them to private ownership.

Fake speed humps, as flat as the street, but designed to appear three-dimensional, fool drivers into slowing down.

Keith Hempstead, a Durham lawyer, filed the suit last month in Wake Superior Court. He says he renewed his subscription in May just before the paper announced on June 16 the layoffs of 70 staff members and cuts in news pages.

The enigma began last year when a plain envelope with no return address arrived at the world-famous physics laboratory outside Chicago, addressed simply to "Fermilab."

Palestinian engineers say it only costs $1.50 per fill-up. Israel is also going electric with hundreds of charging stations to be installed nationwide.