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...black and white, deserve better than this. In every previous generation, black America has produced leaders who brought out the best in their countrymen--people like Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Thurgood Marshall and, of course, King, who broadened the American Dream by insisting that it applied in equal measure to everyone. Farrakhan and Chavis would substitute a cramped and insular nightmare for that all-encompassing and inspiring vision. Any march they lead is bound to be a journey to nowhere...
...DIED. IDA LUPINO, 77, actress, screenwriter and director; in Burbank, California. The London-born Lupino starred as the woman from the wrong side of the tracks opposite Golden Age leading men like Humphrey Bogart and John Garfield. When the director of Not Wanted (1949) collapsed from a heart attack, co-producer Lupino took the helm, thereby backing into a directing career that peaked with her popular portrait of a murderer, 1953's The Hitch-Hiker...
...Michael D. Crapo (R-Ida.) also remembers Frank from his days at Harvard Law School. He attended that school with Rep. C. Christopher Cox (R-Calif.) as well...
...gift for humor as embittered souls behind the greasepaint. Fortunately, Kathleen Brady avoids this cliche in Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball (Hyperion; 397 pages; $24.95). Without ignoring the darker aspect's of Ball's life, Brady, a former Time reporter whose previous biography was of pioneering muckraker Ida Tarbell, portrays a woman of impressive determination and resilience...
...weeks in a detention facility. In July, Yummy and his cousin Darryl went on a church trip to Six Flags Great America, an hour north of the city. "Yummy couldn't get on most of the rides," Darryl says. "He was too small." On another day a neighbor, Ida Falls, took Yummy and 12 other kids to the local police station to see a film on crime. The cops asked her not to bring him back because he got into fights with other children. On Aug. 15 he was charged in another burglary. By Aug. 28 he would be firing...