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...Manichaean struggle between ! the forces of light and darkness. The bad guys -- first fascists, now Communists -- have lost, the good guys have triumphed. But if the fight is over, so is the fun. The remainder of life on earth, frets Fukuyama, may be a bit of a bore. If there are no more world-class evils to inspire "daring, courage, imagination, and idealism," we could be reduced to fine-tuning economic prosperity and tinkering with "technical problems" and "environmental concerns...
Sadly, what makes this growth rate seem impressive is the economic difficulties of less affluent black workers. Beginning in the early 1970s, blacks disproportionately bore the brunt of the decline of smokestack America. Since then, not only has there been a widening gap between black and white unemployment rates, but the real incomes of some categories of low-skill black workers have plummeted 20% as well. Small wonder that blacks' per capita income was 57% of whites' in 1984, the same percentage as in 1971. So much for the Reagan-era vision of Morning in America...
...more than 125,000 Tamils since 1983. When 64 Tamils landed at London's Heathrow Airport in February 1987, British authorities attempted to deport 58 of them. The official explanation was that the asylum seekers "failed to prove they had a justifiable fear of persecution," although several of them bore torture marks inflicted in Sri Lankan prisons. Panicked, the refugees stripped off their clothes on $ Heathrow's tarmac and refused to budge. A court injunction eventually forced authorities to grant the Tamils access to legal representation. Most of them remain in Britain awaiting a final disposition of their cases...
There were other tribulations: Carson's only feature film, Looking for Love, bombed, as did a chain of fast-food restaurants that bore his name. He switched coasts, married sometime model Joanna Holland and took a mistress, Mary Jane (Emm-Jay) Trokel, a TV production assistant. Both relationships ultimately failed. In 1987 Carson acquired his fourth wife, an executive secretary, Alexis Mass. Meanwhile, Leamer asserts, all three of his sons became dependent on their father for jobs and income...
...conversation partners from behind thick, black- framed glasses. On most days Bentsen, who is a first cousin of Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, can be found in an air-conditioned office managing his real estate investments. He used to raise steers on his ranch until he realized that "cattle bore me to death...