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Changes at the FBI Keeping a promise to increase the diversity in the fbi's upper ranks, Director Louis Freeh promoted a woman, a Hispanic man and an African-American man to assistant directorships at the agency...
...instrumentally sparse, the album has a hushed sound that highlights Jones' elastic vocals and free-wheeling lyrics, which never flinch from unpleasant truths. The meditative tone is set on Pink Flamingos, which describes the denizens of a bar in terms that suggest a watering hole in the African veldt. As guitar and piano skitter above a buttery bass line, Jones sings, ''Look at them -- poking like flightless birds/. . .the spirit cannot wait to fly like the pink flamingo.'' . Wild animals, with their quality of being both savage and pure, are a recurring motif. On the run from predators imagined...
...great men and women. It is still a chicken- and-egg argument: Who or which comes first, the revolution or the revolutionary, the reformer or the reformation, the parade or the person leading it? The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize last week to Nelson Mandela, president of the African National Congress, and F.W. de Klerk, President of the Republic of South Africa, bolsters both sides of this timeworn debate. De Klerk is pre- eminently an individual who has been pushed forward by the tide of events, a man of conservative bent who has been prodded by historical forces...
...South African folklore contains proud tales of ''going into the laager.'' During the 19th century, Afrikaner settlers under attack would form their wagons into a circle, set up a line of defense and then bravely fight off the fierce black tribesmen. Last week the South African government went into a new kind of laager. At 12:01 a.m. Thursday, thousands of gun-toting police and troops rumbled out of their stations and barracks in the armored personnel carriers that are today's covered wagons. By the time dawn broke, authorities had rousted out of bed and taken into custody hundreds...
...author, President of U.S operations for Pitney Bowes Management Services, is a fierce advocate of hard work and self-improvement. He is also an African American who knows what it means to be "the only one in the room." His new book is by turns a solid career guide, inspirational tract and source of knowing advice for young Latino, Asian and black professionals. "If you're going to play the game," he counsels, "you'd better know the rules...