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...November 6, two months after rap superstar Tupac Shakur died in a storm of bullets while driving with his record-company owner, Marion ("Suge") Knight, Sergeant Kevin Manning of the Las Vegas police turned on his television to find Knight chatting with a correspondent for ABC. "If you knew who killed Tupac," asked the reporter, "would you tell the police?" "Absolutely not," answered Knight...
...what does last week's ruling mean for the other states? Conservatives fear that it will usher in an era of "moral anarchy," in the words of Robert Knight, director of cultural studies for the Family Research Council in Washington. "It will lead to calls for other relationships to be recognized, because if feelings are the key to recognizing a marriage, there's no logical reason why three or four people who say 'We sincerely love each other' should be denied this status," he explains. Gay-rights groups also expect wide repercussions, though of a very different kind. "This decision...
...been a big week for Death Row Records owner MARION ("SUGE") KNIGHT, one of the most controversial impresarios in an industry not known for blandness. First, he was arrested for failing to take a drug test that's part of his probation requirements on a 1992 assault charge. (He has been scarce since Tupac Shakur was shot in a car he was driving.) Then the Los Angeles Times disclosed that the prosecutor overseeing his case, Lawrence Longo, had been removed, after the D.A.'s office learned that Knight had given Longo's daughter a record deal and had rented...
...long ago) parents fondly told their sons and daughters that they could grow up to be President. Nowadays the option is still there, but Mom and Dad would generally prefer that Ashley shoot for dental school instead. In two recent polls, one conducted for CNN and the other for Knight-Ridder Newspapers, only about a third of parents said they would steer their kids toward the White House. The parental attitude is, it's a dirty (and thankless) job and someone else should...
...trying to save money in the newsrooms, but they are undercutting the quality of their news reports. It's taking the life right out of them." The San Francisco Examiner, for instance, still runs foreign news, but without a single overseas correspondent on staff. Under instructions from parent company Knight-Ridder to boost its margins from 16% to 18%, the Miami Herald will cut 300 jobs by the end of this year. Once considered a competitor of the New York Times and the Washington Post and famed for winning seven Pulitzers in the 1980s alone, the Herald has responded...