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...film composer that Blanchard, 32, is now reaching wider audiences. In the gangster drama Sugar Hill he uses the sparse, bluesy sound of a jazz quintet to underline the flavor of tragedy and urban decay that permeates the story. "These characters pull the trigger at the drop of a hat," says Blanchard, "so a massive score would have overwhelmed the starkness I wanted to convey." In The Inkwell, a coming-of-age comedy set in a beach resort in 1976, and Crooklyn, Spike Lee's drama about family life in 1970s Brooklyn, Blanchard sketches dreamy melodies with strings and piano...
...candidate for one of the boards that governs Harvard, Leonard Miller '55 is packaging himself as a housing magnate whose expertise can help the University fight homelessness and urban decay...
...assimilates the traditions of people from all over the world. Efforts to safeguard minority as well as individual rights have produced, as Lee charges, a gridlock in the justice system. America is not the pandemonium portrayed in the shock-addicted mass media. But its troubles stem more from the decay of family life than from any government failures. Few societies can afford to look on complacently. As travel eases and cultures intermix, the American experience is becoming the world...
...published by Random House on May 18. In his six most recent works, beginning with The Real War in 1980, the former President dealt primarily with East-West relations. In what he called "probably my last book," Nixon focuses on domestic issues like health care, education and urban decay, arguing that communism's defeat makes it imperative that America live up to its promises. Beyond Peace is the second work by the former President that we have been privileged to excerpt...
...tribal carnage entered a second week in the tiny central African country, the streets of Kigali were the domain of marauding bands of men hacking down women and children on sight. Severed heads and limbs piled up on street corners, the smell of decay fouling the air. No matter how many bodies Red Cross workers collected, more appeared. Boys carrying hand grenades threatened passing cars, while drunken soldiers at makeshift barricades terrorized civilians scurrying by. In a city without electricity or water, the foolish few who ventured out into the streets to forage for food were too traumatized...