Word: angela
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...misbegotten camping trip -- and the two dozen-plus characters are mostly stereotypes and sketches. But the core story is believably specific and disconcertingly universal: the emergence of a friendship between two preteen girls, one black and one white, amid all the social influences that tend to divide them. Angela Goethals, 14, is affectingly sincere as the white narrator. As her friend, Chandra Wilson, who turns 22 this week, has wit and fire and the promise of major stardom. W.A.H...
Dershowitz is guilty of many excesses, but moral blindness is not one of them. That he leaves to his opponents: Angela Davis, a leader of the American Communist Party, used him as a consultant when she was charged with murder. Acquitted, she vowed to spend the rest of her life defending political prisoners. When she journeyed to Moscow, Dershowitz asked the radical to speak up on behalf of Soviet Jewry. She refused because " 'they are all Zionist fascists and opponents of socialism.' Davis would urge that they be kept in prison where they belonged." Dershowitz's other targets include...
...Medical School's indirect cost rate is now 88 percent, according to the school's administrator of financial affairs Angela R. Foss...
AFRICAN ARK by Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher (Abrams; $65). Ethiopia has suffered greatly in this century, but famine and political upheaval have never dimmed its natural wonders and social vibrance. Two photographers have brilliantly captured the essence of the leopard-colored land, as well as the haunting rites of people who still rock the cradle of mankind...
This life-style carries risk. "People freak out when they see us interact as a family," says Maria. Neighbors in their Hispanic district have escalated from hurling insults to flinging garbage to tossing firecrackers through an open window. Even in more tolerant communities, lesbians may face subtle discrimination. Angela Bowen, 54, a divorced, free-lance writer in Boston, has maintained a union with Jennifer Abod, 44, a media producer, for 11 years, but because the relationship has no legal status, Abod's health insurance will not cover Bowen or Bowen's daughter...