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Randy Newman, 51, has long since trumped Goethe by writing and performing some of the best songs in contemporary American pop: Sail Away, Take Me Back, Dixie Flyer, Rednecks, Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man), Rollin', I Think It's Going to Rain Today. Now he's trying to beat one of the world's best poets at his own game by writing a contemporary Faust as a ferocious musical Valentine to temptation, damnation, redemption and the beguiling persistence of evil. It is classic pop and prime Newman. The tunes are jaundiced, lyrical and funny; the libretto...
...long been a tenet of conservative family-values orthodoxy that mothers should stay home with young children. Eagle Forum president Phyllis Schlafly, who racked up countless frequent-flyer miles killing the Equal Rights Amendment, says, "The baby needs enormous care for a long time. Hired caretakers are no substitute for a mother." William Kristol, editor of the conservative magazine the Weekly Standard, says,"At the end of the day, family is more important than work as a way to break the cycle of dependency...
...ended in 1945, none of the 992 Tuskegee Airmen was able to get a job in commercial aviation. And even today, less than 1% of the approximately 71,000 pilots nationwide are African Americans. "It has been a struggle all the way," said Perry Jones, a former Air Force flyer and Delta captain who heads the Organization of Black Airline Pilots. "We had more black pilots in 1942 than we do today." Few jobs offer as much glamour as an airline pilot's or pay so well--up to $180,000 a year at a major airline. And few jobs...
Korean War flyer Marlon Green took Continental Airlines all the way to the Supreme Court in 1963, prompting a landmark judgment that opened commercial airlines to black pilots. It was 10 more years before a woman got that far, though during World War II 1,104 members of the Women's Air Service Pilots covered 60 million miles ferrying every type of fighter and cargo plane, as well as testing planes and pulling targets for apprentice artillery gunners. Then, in a landmark case against United Airlines filed by the Justice Department in 1973, a federal court found entrenched discrimination...
...COMPUTER BULLETIN board lists the names of local agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and offers helpful advice on how to harass them. A licensed gun dealer, required to surrender his business records to ATF's national tracing center, coated them first with rat excrement. A flyer found posted in Pennsylvania reads WANTED: ATF AGENT. DEAD...