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Dyson is not afraid to go against the grain. He defends Martin Luther King against revisionists who would portray him as a "sell-out" compared with the more militant--and currently more fashionable--Malcolm X. Dyson argues that those who (rightly) lionize Malcolm should re-examine the radical final stage of King's life, in which he sought to unify "poor blacks, whites, Latinos and native Americans in a multiracial coalition ... to challenge the unfair distribution of wealth." Dyson also offers a defense of singer Mariah Carey against critics who say her music is not "authentically" black. He writes: "What...
Then, starting in the late 1960s, three paleontologists - Harry Whittington of the University of Cambridge in England and his two students, Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris - embarked on a methodical re-examination of the Burgess Shale fossils. Under bright lights and powerful microscopes, they coaxed fine-grain anatomical detail from the shale's stony secrets: the remains of small but substantial animals that were overtaken by a roaring underwater mudslide 515 million years ago and swept into water so deep and oxygen-free that the bacteria that should have decayed their tissues couldn't survive. Preserved were not just...
...deal with the problem the U.S. faces today, it must accept a lesson that runs against the isolationist grain: alliances are essential. A task as big as, say, aligning China or Russia toward free markets, responsive government and strategic self-restraint will take consistent diplomacy from many countries working together for at least a generation. Building and managing an alliance to last that long will call for leadership more patient and forward thinking than the U.S. has commonly provided. But other countries are eager for it--though they may not always admit as much. "The U.S. is and should remain...
BUCHANAN AND HIS SUPPORTERS DO NOT see that all markets are now global and that guaranteed employment is incompatible with technological progress. Carrying out his ideas would ensure that in 20 years the U.S. would be a Third World country, selling grain and buying high technology. Of course, being a computer professional, I could always move to a country that would more highly value my skills--any of the former Soviet republics, for starters. Their gain would be President Buchanan's loss. ILYA TAYTSLIN Boston Via E-mail...
Russian officials announced that drought and poor farm management had combined to produce the country's worst grain harvest in 30 years. The estimated yield this year will be just 66 million tons, down from last year's already paltry 80 million tons. Russians will not starve, however, because up to half the vegetables and a third of the meat eaten in the country are produced privately, often in backyard plots. Politicians, however, could lose big: they face parliamentary elections in mid-December, just when food prices are expected to rise...