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...conclusion of the tragic Stuart case has produced in us, as well as in so many others, extremely intense feelings. Foremost among these is relief. Relief that it was Charles Stuart, instead of an African American, who murdered Carol Stuart. Obviously, this was a heinous crime, regardless of the identity and race of the murderer. Yet, had the killer been an African American, we fear that white society would have sanctioned an equally odorous crime, the scope of which could not be measured. Boston seemed to be on the verge of rescinding fundamental civil rights of Black males with...
...Andrei Sakharov found time in his last months to polish his autobiography. The following fragments from Sakharov's Memoirs, to be published in 1990 by Alfred A. Knopf, tell of his evolution from an honored physicist into a man reviled, hounded and condemned to exile as the U.S.S.R.'s foremost human rights activist...
...PIANO LESSON. August Wilson's Broadway-bound drama, at Washington's Kennedy Center, is the finest work yet from the foremost active American playwright, a heart-rending family debate over how to deal with the legacy of slavery...
...First and foremost, their actions and their behavior led to the loss of the confidence that the people had put in them. There was a gap between words and deeds...
...nation's foremost opponent of environmental neglect and genetic engineering is waving a $20 bill as he makes a bet. The scene happens to be a meeting of the Humane Society in Houston, but the wager, which is part of his script, could just as easily be offered to a gathering of born-again environmentalists in Aspen, Colo.; at the Los Angeles home of TV producer Norman Lear; or on a college campus. Jeremy Rifkin bets that no one can answer this question: "What value has emerged in the past 100 years as our most dominant value, a value that...