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...look around at the peeling lead paint on the walls in your tiny apartment, waiting for the slum lord to turn the electricity back on so you can cook a bite-sized dinner for your malnourished kids when they get back from their overcrowded, dilapidated public school--cheer up! We, the Republicans, are concerned about all of the American people. And we've got an extra special plan just...
Mildred Johnson, a retired bookkeeper and a parishioner at St. Sabina's Catholic Church on the South Side, is proud that her husband Odessa is going to the march. She has seen her 31-year-old son search unsuccessfully for work. She has watched the new Cook County jail go up: "a masterpiece; there's not a school in the county that can compare." Black people, she says, "are always in a grieving state; we've been tranquilized by injustice." She is hoping that Farrakhan's march will wake them up. She doesn't care that...
...alternative theory currently gaining favor among observers is that the ascent of U.S. Catholic families into the middle class has given sons a wider range of career opportunities. Monsignor Paul Cook, 62, pastor of St. Joseph's, remembers what happened after he sensed his calling to the priesthood: "When I told my parents about my interest when I was 13, they were thrilled. Today a young man is in college, and the parents are paying to have him prepare for engineering or law, and he says he wants to be a priest? More often than not, they...
Citing new evidence, and following marches and protests against his handling of the case, Cook County state's attorney Jack O'Malley obtained an involuntary-manslaughter indictment against a white police officer who, while off duty, allegedly shot to death a homeless black man last July. Gregory Becker is accused of having killed Joseph Gould after Gould approached him and a female companion for money...
...melting glaciers and the expansion of water as it warms up. That could submerge vast areas of low-lying coastal land, including major river deltas, most of the beaches on the U.S. Atlantic Coast, parts of China and the island nations of the Maldives, the Seychelles and the Cook and Marshallislands. More than 100 million people would be displaced...