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...trade and commerce. He fined the ten-team league $55,000 and court costs, ordered it either to 1) bring the Braves back, or 2) give Milwaukee a new team. Last week, in a 4-3 decision, Wisconsin's Supreme Court overruled Roller and ordered him to dismiss the case...
...court voted eight to seven to dismiss the case brought by Ethiopia and Liberia against South Africa, on the technical grounds that neither of the plaintiffs had "any legal right or interest" in the matter...
This much of Malcolm X's life was not overlooked when he died in 1965. Those who wished to play down his contribution to the Negro revolution could dismiss his activities as the work of an "irresponsible" Negro militant...
...dismiss Malcolm X with such facility is to do him an injustice. His was an extraordinarily elusive personality; his volatility and suspicion of all white men combined to give him the reputation of being the "angriest Negro in America." His character demanded total commitment, and so, when introduced to Muslim teachings and to Elijah Muhammed, he devoted himself almost compulsively to the religion and its leader...
...easy to dismiss this sort of thing as irresponsible fantasy, but it should be recalled that this last little apparently sick mick joke is directed against James Joyce, who made one of his characters rage against Ireland as "the old sow that eats her own farrow...