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...beginning there was a place called Crown Heights, New York. Crown Heights was a relatively peaceful community composed predominantly of Blacks and Jews. In August, 1991, a Jewish man ran a red light, hit another car and then jumped a curb, crushing a young Black boy. Later that same key, in a different part of Crown Heights, about 20 Black youths approached a Jewish scholar and stabbed him to death. These two incidents brought Crown Heights to the brink of disintegration...
...Klerk and Mandela together. The A.N.C. said it was "prepared to participate" in a summit which would break months of bitter estrangement between the two leaders. And Foreign Minister R.F. ("Pik") Botha has asked the United Nations not just for observers but also for a mediator to help curb the violence and get the constitutional negotiations back on track. Given the mutual mistrust that has existed for decades between South Africa and the U.N., that appeal underlined South Africa's desperation...
...SELF-CONGRATULATORY RITUAL, repeated every day, every week, all over America. Separate the clear glass bottles from the green and amber ones. Place the newsprint in one basket, mixed white paper in another, the reams of used computer paper in a third. Haul the whole lot out to the curb. There. You've just done your bit for humanity: you've recycled. It's Miller time...
...charge of pursuing death-penalty cases. And pursue them he does. Carnes wrote Alabama's death-penalty law, which allows judges to impose the death penalty on convicted killers even when juries have opted for life in prison. He led a national effort by state attorneys general to curb the opportunities for death-row prisoners to appeal their cases before federal judges. People who don't much care for him -- they include many civil rights leaders and death-penalty opponents -- call him Dr. Death...
Gerst said Newton leaders first developed theconcept of a water bus a year and a half ago, whenthe Newton Corner Neighborhood Association soughtways to curb street congestion...