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...Clinton has pledged to create more jobs, helpthe inner cities and improve race relations in theUnited States. We remember that," Fisher says...
...inner cities, where weapons are treated like household appliances, the lessons in cruelty usually start at home. Psychologist Charles Patrick Ewing, author of Kids Who Kill, has found that many young people committing seemingly motiveless killings were themselves sexually or physically abused. "To brutalize another human being, a youngster has to have been brutalized himself," he says. Ewing finds that teenage murderers often don't recall, or won't admit, that they were once victims. "A street tough would rather go to the gas chamber than admit to having been beaten or sodomized by a male relative...
...than anthropologists had believed. More mysterious were the well-defined tattoos: groups of blue parallel lines on the Iceman's lower spine, a cross behind the left knee and stripes on the right ankle. "Since all these tattoos were covered by clothing," says Spindler, "they must have had an inner meaning for the man and not have had the function of identification for other tribes." Some scientists suggest that the designs might have been used to mark the passage from youth to manhood. One fact is certain: until this discovery, it was thought that tattooing originated 2,500 years later...
...sheer size of the production, however, often overwhelms Hwang's elliptical text ("Goodbye to prizes and politics/ Goodbye to the warm part of my heart"), and the vast inner space of the Met renders the words nearly unintelligible (surtitles, anyone?). Although some of the coups de theatre are striking -- the wheelchair-bound Scientist intones the prologue while floating beyond the rings of Saturn -- too many of Pountney's and Israel's images seem to have washed ashore from Wilson's incomplete magnum opus, the CIVIL warS...
...Democratic Convention, Clinton dared to say that women and minorities would be included in medical research, that he favored the civil rights bills that (as he did point out during the debate) Bush vetoed. But the question of inner-city problems was restricted to a discussion of enterprise zones and tied--almost desperately--to the need for each child to have a strong family unit...