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...civil trial was largely symbolic, because Goetz will hardly be able to pay even a small fraction of the settlement. The civil proceedings were begun by the late anti-establishment legal hero William Kunstler, and concluded by Ronald Kuby, the pony-tailed bearer of Kunstler's mantle. The second Goetz verdict may signal that juries have become more immune to race-baiting or less likely to see black youth as potential muggers...
...Communist Party's standard-bearer in the presidential race is Gennadi Zyuganov, a smooth customer and an opponent of Boris Yeltsin's in the last days of the U.S.S.R. As observers both Russian and foreign point out, Zyuganov can preach it round or flat. He sounds like a social democrat when he meets with Western businessmen and diplomats, reassuring them that he favors a "mixed economy." To the party faithful, however, he puts forth a harsher anti-Western, sometimes anti-Semitic message...
...Nathan Detroit in the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls, and his movie parts have ranged from Michael J. Fox's brother in Life with Mikey to the voice of the Hakuna Matata-singing meerkat in The Lion King. Lane has little interest in being treated as a standard bearer for gay roles in movies. "I'm just an actor," he says. "I'm not a politician...
Philadelphia's Temple University, meanwhile, has become the standard-bearer for the responsible wing of the Afrocentric movement under the leadership of Molefi Kete Asante. His department includes the leading Egyptologist Theophile Obenga, as well as professors of African dance and linguistics. All 35 students who have received doctorates from Temple's program easily found jobs. Says Asante: "This is the hottest degree in the country." There are now 215 black-studies programs of varying quality at colleges and universities around...
...Republicans' turn again, as party elders arrived at work all over the country Thursday morning, scanned the papers and nearly spilled their coffee trying to fathom the idea that a man they'd scarcely heard of six months ago might just turn out to be their standard bearer against Bill Clinton. Age of Possibility indeed...