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...decade" at his inner-city high school, he once dreamed of becoming a professional basketball player. Some 10 years later he is an overweight wage-laborer in a bleak Chicago factory. Sometimes, he confesses to the camera, his eyes well up and he wonders whether he isn't an abject failure in life...
Spokesmen for the Protestant groups -- the Ulster Volunteer Force, the Ulster Freedom Fighters and the Red Hand Commandos -- linked their truce to the I.R.A.'s continued adherence to its own cease-fire. The Loyalists added a surprise note of apology for their terrorist actions, declaring their "abject and true remorse" to the loved ones of all innocent victims for the "intolerable suffering" they had endured. "We are on the threshold of a new beginning," the statement said, "with our battles in future being political battles...
...often, the news from black America seems to be all bad: crime, broken families, failing schools, abject hopelessness. Yet amid the bleak circumstances that envelop so much of the African-American community, a singularly heartening piece of good news has been overlooked. Black artists are now embarked on one of the most astonishing outbursts of creativity in the nation's history. Never before -- not even during the legendary great Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s or the bristling Black Arts Movement of the '60s -- have black artists produced so much first-rate writing, music, painting and dance. For them...
...things governments might do to get a grip on population: improve the status of women, expand access to health care, alleviate poverty. With the notable exception of Africa, the world has made progress in these areas: infant mortality has declined, as has the percentage of people who live in abject poverty, and the Green Revolution has improved the diet of hundreds of millions of people...
...earful of protests last week after a company magazine sent to all employees published this cartoon, in which Africa is represented by an ape. Abject company officials apologized for the seeming racist slur, which they said no editor had noticed...