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...tension-filled day in the fitful talks among 26 parties that began in December 1991. While dissenters will be able to raise the issue again, a majority nonetheless provisionally set the poll date to bolster the hopes of blacks impatient for more rapid change. Afterward, African National Congress Secretary-General Cyril Ramaphosa rushed to a previously scheduled gala dinner to receive a Man of the Year award jointly with government negotiator Roelf Meyer. To the cheers of 400 guests, who represented all the country's races, Ramaphosa declared, "We now stand at the gateway of the democracy that so many...
...gave Guinier the forum for a press conference at Justice to tell her side. In doing so, Reno was walking a thin line between asserting her independence and challenging the President. Giving Guinier a stage was certainly popular at Justice. Guinier's speech was greeted by loud applause afterward from the civil-rights attorneys, one of whom said, "We're very disappointed and very...
...male pilot whales have found a reproductive strategy that better suits their oceangoing life-style. An analysis of the DNA of whale families, called pods, published in the journal Science, suggests that these young males wait until their pod collides with another, then mate with females they bump into. Afterward, though, they return to their original pod to protect the offspring of female relatives. While their return does little to assure the survival of the fathers' genes, it improves the odds for the closely related genetic material carried by other members of their...
...England, where hand-gun ownership is practically non-existent and violent crime is less prevalent than in the U.S. What they don't say is that England had lower murder rates than the U.S. before handgun ownership was made illegal, and the murder rate in England did not drop afterward...
...Angeles were likely to support increases in spending to help the poor, only 61% of both whites and Asians agreed. The percentage of L.A. blacks who felt that American society owed their "ethnic group a better chance in life" rose from 55% before the Rodney King verdict to 75% afterward. "Even after the most devastating riot of this century, few minds were changed about how society works, and the disadvantaged felt ever more aggrieved," observed Lawrence Bobo, a sociology professor who conducted the survey...