Word: good
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According to the Bible, a good name is worth more than a precious ointment -- and choosing one can be just as sticky. Since December, when Jesse Jackson proposed that the group now called blacks (formerly known as Negroes, and prior to that as colored people) should adopt the designation African American, the idea has been catching on. In a recent poll conducted for TIME by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 61% preferred to be called black, vs. 26% who supported African American. (Though the survey was too small to be statistically valid, it indicated that the name change has made some headway...
...scheme, MacDonald was to receive up to $750,000 in cash payments. By the time the plot was exposed, Brown says, he had given MacDonald $75,000 in cash and use of a $55,000 BMW. Most of MacDonald's fellow Navajos did not share in his good fortune; they continue to live their old, hardscrabble life. Fully half of all Navajo homes, for example, have no electricity or flush toilets...
...area)) that if it incubates further, it blows up." Somewhat testily, Bush also applied the brakes: "I don't want to be stampeded by the fact that the Soviet Foreign Minister takes a trip to the Middle East." Though he praised Shevardnadze's trip as a "good thing," the President reiterated that the Soviet role in the region "should be limited." Shevardnadze had a canny response: "This is very sad because it injects an element of rivalry that is unnecessary." Then, with a smile, he added, "This is my first critical remark about the President of the United States...
...missed." Co-producer Emanuel Azenberg must hope so too. "Shows that have been successful lately are just not for me," he says. "Then I see the suite of dances from West Side Story, and tears are coming. I realize that my values are not so cuckoo -- this was good. You walk out of the theater reaffirming the values that had you walking into the theater 30 years...
...story thus far: British-Indian author Salman Rushdie, 41, is in hiding somewhere in England. He lives under a death threat imposed by the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who charges that Rushdie's new novel, The Satanic Verses, is blasphemous and an insult to Islam. For good measure, Iranians have offered a bounty of as much as $5.2 million to Rushdie's executioner. The world is stunned by the notion that the Iranian leader would issue a death threat against a British subject who has merely written a work of phantasmagoric fiction that, to be sure, occasionally deals with Islam...