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DIED. CASEY MILLER, 77, advocate of nonsexist language and coauthor of Words and Women (1976), who helped inspire changes to the written and spoken word, including the use of chairperson; of lung disease; in East Haddam, Connecticut...
...back is the price of prime Manhattan real estate. The Corcoran Group, a New York City real estate broker, has no trouble selling eight-room apartments at an average price of $1,170,000, vs. $889,000 last year, many to Wall Street types, who typically pay 100% cash. Chairperson Barbara Corcoran sees only one difference from the '80s: "Then everybody bought with reckless abandon. In the '90s they put on a show of caution--and then they buy with reckless abandon...
...last holdouts turned in their grades Monday "so as to secure our teaching positions for the coming term," the group's chairperson, Robin Brown, wrote to Yale President Richard Levin...
...moral and spiritual rebirth among African American men; to the contrary, I applaud it. But however noble the cause, I will not rally behind any banner hoisted by the march's main organizers, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. As Mary Frances Berry, chairperson of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, declared in a letter to the Washington Post last week, "I do not trust Louis Farrakhan or Benjamin Chavis to lead us to the Promised Land...
Prominent black leaders supporting the march include Jesse Jackson, former NAACP head Benjamin Chavis and D.C. Mayor Marion Barry. Many oppose it, including Congressman John L. Lewis; Mary Frances Berry, chairperson of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; and Michael Meyers of the New York Civil Rights Coalition. As Berry put it this week: "I do not trust Louis Farrakhan and Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. to lead us to the Promised Land...