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...months, black leaders who remember the vicious church burnings by white racists in the '60s have been saying the recent 18-month acceleration in fires at small black churches like Kossuth's represents a re-emergence of something big and evil: as National Urban League president Hugh Price puts it, "The flames of bigotry and intolerance are soaring higher than they have in a generation." Now each new bit of evidence about the arsons in their backyard forced the people of Kossuth to question whether their confidence in local harmony had been misplaced--and to reconsider their own behavior...
Other Key Players: Jon Gibbons '96 (H), Hugh Eakin '96 (H), Kevin Daly...
DIED. RICHARD CLURMAN, 72, TIME's first chief of correspondents; of a heart attack; in Quogue, New York. Clurman built a network of correspondents around the world that he inspired with his own curiosity, energy and passion. Said TIME's Hugh Sidey last week: "He never panicked in a crisis, was always instructive when correcting you--and there was always laughter when he was around." Later Clurman took on cultural challenges, serving as New York City administrator of parks, recreation and cultural affairs and on the board of Lincoln Center. His books include To the End of Time, which...
...Western Kenya: An Engendered Explanation and an Application of Human Rights"; Heather L. Clark '96 for "Conquest is a Lie: Joyce, Irish Identity, and the Politics of the Post-colonial in Araby"; Jill A. Corcoran '96 for "Beyond the Bell Curve and 'g': Rethinking Ability and Its Correlates"; Hugh G. Eakin '96 for "Religious Politics and Civic Rhetoric in the Renaissance: The Brancacci Chapel Frescoes and Their Patronage"; Steven A. Engel '96 for "The Legacy of American Hegemony: A Theory of Institutional Change"; and Eliezer M. Finegold '96 for "Musika Mizrahit: From the Margins to the Mainstream...
...Young Poisoner's Handbook" is the true story of a young 14-year-old psychopath who becomes obsessed with different types of poisons and uses them on his family, classmates and co-workers. Graham Young (Hugh O'Conor) is obsessed with chemistry and studies it with a passion. One day he learns all about Isaac Newton's lifelong obsession with antimony, a highly poisonous material, which when heated appears to transform itself into a diamond of breathtaking beauty. However, when Graham attempts to recreate the experiment it blows up in his face. And thus begins the life of the Poisoner...