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...today being put to African- American political and religious leaders, writers and columnists, college instructors and rap artists, and many others who routinely speak before the public. A New York Times columnist has said he's prepared to go to "war," to call all African-American intellectuals on the carpet to prove they are not anti-Semites. And many of us are appalled because most of us, as Baldwin said then, have never been "even vaguely tempted" by Muhammad's racist theories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Need to Do Some Work | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...safeguards. This is a rare moment when the interests of the low-road entertainment mongers and the sticklers for due process coincide. Otherwise, the ending would have to play out in parallel universes -- Kerrigan at Lillehammer, on Saturday Night Live and in Reebok ads; Harding on Inside Edition, the carpet of the .S.O.C. and in No Excuses jeans ads. Worse yet, the finale could be relegated to a made-for-cable movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Eye: Now for the Skate-Off | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

...hearings on the Madison collapse as a prerequisite for considering Clinton's bank reforms. In Whitewater only six homes have been constructed. As for the house that Hillary built, its current owner, John Lauramoore, half expects tourists to start lining up outside. "Maybe I can cut up the carpet and sell pieces and say that Bill Clinton walked on it," he says. "Even though he didn't, they wouldn't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The House That Hillary Built | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

...YORK CITY: Beginning during the holidays, $100 Toys R Us gift certificates. launched by Fernando Mateo, at center in photo, a 35-year-old Dominican-born carpet merchant whose one-man crusade has sparked fresh enthusiasm for such gun-exchange programs and inspired inquiries around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Unusual Crowd Ever At a Bette Midler Concert | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

...patrician grain at every opportunity. As a product manager at British Ford in the late 1950s, he made his first mark by taking on the senior engineers to develop its Cortina, which became one of its most successful product introductions ever. Raised in Scotland, the son of a carpet layer and upholsterer and the only non-college graduate to hold the top position, Trotman is better suited and % more polished these days. But he still likes the rough-and-tumble of an honest working-class spat, almost fondly recalling the good brawls in Britain. "The manufacturing guys were terrifying people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Back on the Fast Track | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

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