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Poor, blind and growing up in Detroit's roughest ghetto, STEVIE WONDER didn't have much, but he did have his music--plus a beloved nanny. Now a multimillionaire and deeply spiritual guy, Wonder traveled to Israel's remote Negev desert last week to search for his former nanny; he believes she is living among the Black Hebrews, a splinter Jewish sect whose adherents (above, with Wonder) claim to be descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. By week's end, however, the singer still hadn't found his long-lost care giver. But the trip wasn't a total...
...Nazi persecution of Jews during World War II. In a best-selling book published last year, Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association described ATF's disastrous raid at Waco, which began the 51-day siege that ended in conflagration, as "reminiscent of the standoff at the Warsaw ghetto." Opposition to ATF has become so intense in gun-toting quarters as to resemble a religion, says Gerald Nunziato, who heads the ATF tracing center. He distills its creed: "The gun is God; the N.R.A. is the congregation; and ATF is the devil...
...Marius said Peretz had told Gore that thespeechwriter was an anti-Semite as early as1993--the year Marius helped the then-candidatewrite a speech Gore gave in New York about theWarsaw Ghetto uprising...
...Marty Peretz first came into my view when Iwrote the speech for the Madison Square Garden in1993 about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. It was thenthat he told Gore that I was an anti-Semite. Ithought 'this is so stupid,'" Marius recalled in atelephone interview from his summer retreat inTennessee...
...past five months, Jerome Ash has spent every weekday at Training Inc. in hopes of breaking into what used to be known as the pink-collar ghetto of receptionists, typists and filing clerks. He spends game nights at Indianapolis' Market Square Arena, selling frozen drinks on a 15% commission. On his first night, during a hockey game, he made...