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...running for and against parts of him--and Bloomberg argues that the city wants a caretaker of his legacy. But the mayor has also worn people out--and severely antagonized minorities, who say his cops unfairly target them. Bloomberg told TIME he would meet with black activist Al Sharpton, whom Rudy has shunned. And his embrace of Giuliani is still gawky and schizophrenic. "Nobody should walk away from Rudy. Even if you don't like him, you've got to give him credit," he says. "Unfortunately the public has more of a 'What have you done for me lately?' attitude...
...amra were fired up for a fight. If the police wouldn't give them one, they decided to pick another. Across the street, they noticed a young activist from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine with a roll of posters and a bucket of paste. On the posters was the image of Raed Dabash, a 20-year-old P.F.L.P. member shot by Israeli soldiers. The activist set to work pasting up pictures of Dabash over the top of some older posters. That was his mistake. The martyr whose posters were obscured was Hussein Abayat, a gunman who became...
Changing the world has never been a job for the conventional or easily discouraged. But the problems of our time demand an especially crafty and determined breed of activist, because our enemies refuse to dress the part. Math illiteracy plagues black kids without wearing a hood or burning a cross. Urban sprawl doesn't need a gun to rob a community's quality of life. And hunger can hide beneath a designer T shirt...
DIED. NKOSI JOHNSON, 12, sweetly tenacious South African AIDS activist born HIV-positive, befriended by world leaders after addressing the 13th International AIDS Conference last July and pleading for compassion and treatment for afflicted children, babies and pregnant women; in Johannesburg. Shortly before he died, he wrote, "I wish I was well...Then I would be able to grow...
...northward-bound aliens with food, water and sometimes a little cash. Father Robert Carney, a priest in Douglas, Ariz., holds prayer vigils at border-crossing points and often goes out into the desert to dispense toiletry kits and water bottles to people crossing over. The Rev. John Fife, an activist in Tucson, has earned three felony convictions for harboring immigrants and now permits the newly arrived to bathe at his Presbyterian church...