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Basing their beliefs largely on a speculative scientific paper published in 1983 by Dr. Frank Barr, a San Francisco physician, the melanists assert that blacks -- who indeed have more of the skin pigment than other races -- possess superior and supernatural traits that can be ascribed to the magical qualities of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching Reverse Racism | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

Most Harvard students don't care much one way or another. According to this week's Crimson survey, a majority of undergraduates can't name even two things the council has done in the past year. Apparently, there is a breakdown in the communication channels between representatives and the represented...

Author: By David V. Bonfili, | Title: Is the U.C. Fee Hike Worth the Price? A Perspective From the Inside | 3/25/1994 | See Source »

The case is at the center of a multifaceted controversy. Oluloro has, for one thing, asked for "cultural asylum," basing her claim to U.S. residency on her fear for her daughters' physical well-being. The State Department and human-rights activists are watching from the sidelines as an immigration judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Risk of Mutilation | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

The most obvious feature of the debate--and the one on which most observers seem to be basing their judgement--was Andrew Sullivan's obvious superiority in debate. During his undergraduate days, he was president of the Oxford Union, a world-class debating society, and he was comfortable with the...

Author: By David L. Bosco, | Title: Looking Beyond the Scorecard | 12/15/1993 | See Source »

Lichtenstein has been typecast as "the comic-strip artist," but in fact comic strips take up only an early phase of his work. By 1965 he had stopped basing images on them. He was never to refer to comics again, except now and then by including a parody of one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Image Duplicator | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

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