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...watchdog organizations like the National Black United Front contend, Black men have often been killed by police while reaching into their pockets for identification, or, in one case, a Bible. Arrest situations are tense affairs: officers have accidentally shot each other in moments of confusion. But incidents like the Melvin killing will only repeat themselves if, as Sliwa hopes, we all get into the habit of automatically labelling "them" as "punks...
...imperial grace of such reigning fragrance houses as Chanel and Lanvin. But images can change, and indeed they will have to if Actor Ernest Borgnine, 65, is to become the improbable pitchman for Tova, a semi-namesake scent being marketed by his wife Tove, 41. The Borgnines boldly contend that Tova is "the most expensive perfume to make in the world." The sale price: $55 a quarter ounce (compared with $37.50 for the same amount of Chanel No. 5). Quite a step up for the guy who made his name as a butcher in the 1955 film Marty. Come...
...line. To counter this barrage, the press concentrates on what is being concealed, evaded or denied. Jordan might call this emphasis cynicism (seeing everything tinted by one's own crabbed view), but it can as well be skepticism (doubting, and waiting to be convinced). When press and officeholders contend, readers and viewers should be the final skeptics...
Andropov also had to contend with the shadow cast on his political career by his 15-year tenure as KGB chief. Though he resigned his police post in May, it was argued both in the West and in the Soviet Union that his image was too tarnished for him to represent his country at home or abroad. A more important impediment Andropov had to surmount was the widespread fear of the KGB among Soviet officials who vividly remember the purges of party and government bureaucrats by Stalin's secret-police chiefs. Working for Andropov, however, was his record of efficiently...
Some researchers contend further that pound animals, because of their probable cross-breeding and their past contact with humans, actually make better lab animals...