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...verdicts would be as soon as the jury filed in at 7:05 a.m. Several women jurors were dressed in their Sunday best; all the jurors looked self-satisfied and all kept their eyes away from the four defendants. An anxious city and nation listened as court clerk Jim Holmes began to read, in a practiced drone, the verdict the jurors had just handed Judge John Davies. How did the panel find on the charge that police sergeant Stacey Koon "did willfully permit" the savage beating of Rodney King by three other cops under his command, thus depriving King...
Within moments clerk Holmes pronounced "guilty" again. The jury had reached that verdict on a charge that Officer Laurence Powell "did willfully strike . . . kick and stomp Rodney Glen King," thereby violating King's constitutional right "not to be deprived of liberty without due process of law, including the right to be . . . free from the intentional use of unreasonable force" by policemen. In the basement of the First A.M.E. Church, a voice cried, "Thank God!" On the videotape of the beating made by an onlooker and shown endlessly on TV, Powell had been seen to strike by far the most blows...
After a brief and hopeful interlude, Americans seem to have contracted a fresh case of the jitters. "I was walking through the mall the other day, and I thought, Hey, I can buy all these things again," says Stuart Schwartz, a Los Angeles department-store clerk who recently spent two months on the unemployment rolls. "But then I thought, No, I'd rather hang on to the money...
...always believed in God and I knew that whatever means it took for me to survive, beyond violence, I would survive. As long as you had a job, you could make it." Eventually, she got one at a Woolworth variety store, where she still works as a clerk...
...workers in developing economies from Asia to Eastern Europe. U.S. executives have taken to talking of global "market prices" for employees, as if they were investing in cattle futures. "We understand it's just business, but it's still awfully demeaning," says Deb Donaldson, a part-time retail sales clerk in Moline, Illinois. Manpower's Fromstein dismisses such complaints of exploitation, pointing out that his own profit margins are razor thin (1.3%). Says he: "We are not exploiting people. We are not setting the fees. The market is. We are matching people with demands. What would our workers be doing...