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The way his opponents tell it, Ranasinghe Premadasa had some mental quirks. After his election as President in 1988, he increasingly likened himself to Sri Lanka's miracle-working Buddhist kings of old. Until recently, he also avoided overseas travel, reputedly after astrologers warned of his death should he leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of The Assassin | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

Nowhere is the damage wrought by racial discrimination and isolation more evident and painful than in the schools. "In a way, the most tragic years for African-American kids are the years from fourth to sixth grade," says Kozol. "Those are the years in which the dream dies. In many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Out, Then and Now | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

Crusaders constantly emphasize that there is no justice in the United States, that our country is declining. They ask for recrimination and retribution. We have created a subculture of guilty white liberals who watch "Yo! MTV Raps" and believe they understand the ghetto. Most people are really only capable of...

Author: By P. GREGORY Maravilla, | Title: The End of Civilization As We Know It | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

The notion of equal opportunity is central to the American ideal. For that goal to have any meaning, it must be rooted in an education system that gives every child a chance to succeed. But for decades, a gulf has been widening between the quality of public schooling for children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do The Poor Deserve Bad Schools? | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

The B.J.P. has been waiting a long time for that turn of the wheel. The party traces its lineage to the 1920s, when a young doctor named Keshav Baliram Hedgewar founded the R.S.S., or National Volunteer Corps; its members today form the core of the B.J.P.. Hedgewar believed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Mahatma vs. Rama | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

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