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Although the legacy of the transportation system is strong, Australians have been eager to obliterate what came to be known as the "hated stain." They succeeded so well that there was no comprehensive popular history of the country's penal-colony origins until Robert Hughes, art critic of TIME and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coming Up from Down Under THE FATAL SHORE | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

Contramania has shown that we should be more skeptical of a psychiatrist who never looks tired. While he may temporarily make us feel better, he may not be solving our problems. Although Ronald Reagan has attained tremendous popularity and a superficially strong economy with lower inflation, he will probably be...

Author: By Seth Goldman, | Title: Presidency in Absentia | 1/28/1987 | See Source »

THE IMPEDIMENTS to true equality remain. This aspect of King's legacy must also be recalled. We cannot, as middle class Black conservatives propose, turn our backs to the Black poor by abandoning renewed calls for civil rights and equal opportunity. In a nation where the rate of Black unemployment...

Author: By Marshall Hyatt, | Title: A Time to Remember | 1/14/1987 | See Source »

Sadly, this has not been the case. Although today many Americans believe that racism is no longer a problem, that it was "abolished by the movement," it continues to run rampant across the face of America. From jewelers in Washington, D.C. who refuse to admit Black teenagers to their stores...

Author: By Marshall Hyatt, | Title: A Time to Remember | 1/14/1987 | See Source »

In the conventional wisdom, the two don't even overlap: Harvard is for the best and the brightest, 'Bama for the biggest and the brawniest. Cambridge has a Nobel prize-laden faculty, Tuscaloosa has the legacy of its great football coach, Paul "the Bear" Bryant.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roll Tide, Roll | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

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