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POINT OF VIEW
How to Read a Noose
What are we to make of the noose as symbol in 21st-century America? The Washington Post reported on October 20 that there have been several "copycat" noose hangings since those in Jena, La., in 2006. The most widely publicized, in a front-page story in The New York Times, was a noose left on the doorknob of a black professor's office at...
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