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...content of their character." But they ignore an earlier passage in which King angrily declared, "When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was the promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check; a check which has come back marked 'insufficient...
...onetime soft-porn film starlet whose liaison with the prince sparked media madness in 1982. After Andrew returned from the Falklands war, the two were sighted frolicking on Mustique. Stills of a nude Koo from her notorious films were splattered across the London tabs. Koo later married Tim Jefferies, heir to a trading-stamp fortune, but the union lasted only a year. Since then she has run her own photography business. Always discreet concerning her romance with Andrew, she is reportedly still a friend of his. In August they danced together at a party thrown by the Yorks...
...topple the Peruvian state in the early 1990s. Smaller than its notorious rival, Tupac Amaru drew inspiration not from China but from Cuba, and recruits from the countrys farthest shantytowns of the dispossessed poor. The organization's name has a bloody history. It first belonged to the nephew and heir of Atahualpa, the Incan King whom the Spanish conquistadores garroted in 1533. Tupac Amaru (which means "Royal Serpent" in Quechua) resisted his uncle's executioners for years, but was finally captured in 1572, whereupon he was paraded on a mule through the streets of Cuzco and beheaded with a cutlass...
...CASSANDRA WILSON NEW MOON DAUGHTER (Blue Note). With her knowing, nocturnal voice, Wilson is the queen of contemporary jazz vocalists and the true heir of Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan. Here she branches out, with remakes of songs by the likes of U2, Hank Williams, even the Monkees. She graces all of them--covers as well as spellbinding originals--with a classy Afrocentricity that shatters boundaries even as it breaks your heart...
RULED COMPETENT. JOHN DUPONT, 58, eccentric chemical-fortune heir; to stand trial for murder in the death of Olympic wrestler David Schultz, after undergoing treatment at a psychiatric hospital; in Media, Pennsylvania...