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...Downe's yacht in the Caribbean, where they allegedly exchanged inside information. While most of the defendants have denied any wrongdoing, two have come forward to settle some of the charges. Sullivan has agreed to pay a penalty of $58,000 without denying or admitting his guilt. Downe has pleaded guilty to two criminal counts and could face 10 years in prison. "It's terrible," he said, "just awful to be in this situation." (See related story on page...
...ambitions for the medium. "I think poetry is political and useful and fascinating, " he tells me. When I ask him if he ever question the social value of literature, he answers immediately. "[Poetry] is not something that's taking away from service--I think it's problem of liberal guilt about writing, and I just don't feel that," he tells me. "I mean, both my parents are in health care. They do service all day, but that doesn't mean that they don't want to come home and read my poems...
...shocking to read President Johnson's words from the 1960s. He spoke bluntly about "white guilt" and "equality ((of)) result." These phrases violate the taboos of 1992's conservative political correctness. And of course anything as grandiose as a "war on poverty" is unthinkable today. Why is that? People say we have lost the economic optimism and national self- confidence of the 1960s. But the 1980s were also a period of national economic optimism, yet that is when the War on Poverty was officially declared unwinnable. And even the sad-sack 1990s are objectively richer than the 1960s. The difference...
...cars, refrigerators and climate-controlled shopping malls -- that are the problem. "You can't have an environmentally healthy planet in a world that is socially unjust," says Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello. Counters a U.S. representative to a presummit negotiating session: "They are trying to lay a collective guilt trip on us because we try to give our people a higher standard of living...
WITH TWO POWERFUL JOLTS OF ELECTRICity, Roger Keith Coleman was executed last week in Virginia. But the questions about his guilt could not so easily be disposed of -- in part because his court-appointed lawyers failed to put them to rest at his trial. On the night that Wanda Fay McCoy was murdered, Coleman claimed to have been at several points around the coal-mining town of Grundy. Shouldn't his lawyers have tried to retrace his steps on that night and search out witnesses? Shouldn't they have ventured into McCoy's or Coleman's home? At the very...