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P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat made a conciliatory -- and politically risky -- gesture, ordering the arrests of 300 Islamic Hamas activists, supporters of the militant group threatening to kill a young Israeli soldier by tomorrow if 200 Palestinian prisoners aren't freed. The move, in fact, brought threats from a top Islamic leader whose own house was raided. He said the crackdown would only spur further attacks on Israelis. Rabin, unmoved by the display, threatened to halt the Palestinian autonomy process entirely and even send a strike force into Gaza if Arafat can't save the hostage; whether his life will...
With more women freed from repeated childbearing, each child can potentially have a more generous share of attention and resources. If, for example, Hillary had six children instead of just Chelsea, she wouldn't have had many moments to spare for volunteer work with the Children's Defense Fund. "It takes a village to raise a child," according to the African adage, and that ratio of resources to child might be good for the villages as well as our children...
...Cultural History is an exemplary scholarly monograph on a complicated subject. The Joplin biography is equally formidable in its research. Combing census records, city directories and newspaper files across the Midwest, Berlin follows in detail Joplin's travels from his birthplace near Texarkana, Texas (his father Giles was a freed slave), through the bandstands and bordellos of the Mississippi to Tin Pan Alley, the budding popular-music scene in New York City. Berlin then recounts Joplin's syphilis-induced descent into madness, a deterioration that ended with his death in Manhattan in 1917 at age 49. Joplin earned a penny...
Benson was hired as the new head coach of the team prior to this season, replacing Andy Freed '90. Benson was a four-year player for Harvard in the mid-80's known for his pool play and leadership qualities. He was the team's MVP his junior and senior years, attaining all-East status both years...
...judge freed Mel Reynolds on his own recognizance after the first-term Chicago Congressman showed up in court to answer a 20-count indictment for statutory rape, child pornography and other charges. Reynolds -- a former Rhodes Scholar once seen as "the Great Black Hope of Chicago politics," according to TIME reporter Julie Grace -- lashed out at the indictments as the products of a publicity-seeking local prosecutor and a racist justice system. But Grace says his case will probably slide further downhill tomorrow when an alleged accomplice goes to court: Edward "Eddie" McIntyre, a Chicago water department employee...