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...accolade, however, or our version of the Nobel Peace Prize. It is a judgment about news, and specifically about who, for better or worse, had the most impact on the course of history in a given year. The list includes people with indisputable credentials for goodness, like Mahatma Gandhi and the American G.I., but also some of the century's worst despots, like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin...
Success, and its evil twin self-doubt, moved in around 1980. Each of his children's albums sold more than 200,000 copies, and he and Debi had a huge new house in Toronto. The cafe revolutionary was practicing yoga, reading Gandhi and worrying about playing Russian roulette with nature. "I was scared. I bought organic fruits and vegetables, and I started drinking bottled water because I was concerned about the purity of what...
...precocious in racial matters (15- year-old Nathaniel is bold enough to visit a black juke joint to listen to the music) and Lily too poetically noble. The town's first racial protest, moreover, is a sit-in that might have been a model for Gandhi. To protest the verdict in a case that Forrest has prosecuted, demonstrators gather slowly on the courthouse steps. They sit motionless, hushed, intense -- almost holy. The way it was? Or the way TV would prefer to remember...
...Croatia declared independence on June 25. In Sri Lanka an eight-year war between Tamil guerrillas and the Sinhalese majority has left 18,000 dead and countless numbers homeless and destitute. Tamil Tigers have also been held responsible for the assassination last May of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who sent in troops in July 1987 to bolster the ruling Sinhalese. Does this kind of deep-seated hatred and violence await minority Russians in Ukraine, or Ossetians in Georgia or ethnic Ukrainians in Moldavia? Sri Lanka and Yugoslavia offer a not-too-distant mirror of the mayhem that could...
...grasp is the way in which Western principles discriminate against the non-Western or nonwhite. Who or what is the villain here? Galileo? Einstein? The Magna Carta? The Bill of Rights? Was Martin Luther King Jr. diminished, made to feel inferior, when he read Henry David Thoreau along with Gandhi on civil disobedience? Or for that matter when he contemplated the Reformation launched by his 16th century German namesake...