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CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Robert Ball, Carl Bernstein, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...
...Marshall's greatest talent was getting a picture of the big problem," says federal appeals court judge Leon A. Higginbotham Jr., an old friend and former civil rights lawyer. "When he argued the case for desegregating the University of Texas law school, the attorney general of Texas talked about all the great opportunities at Texas Southern, the state school for blacks. Marshall just summed it all up by saying, 'Is there anyone here who, if they had the opportunity to go to the University of Texas, would choose Texas Southern...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Robert Ball, Carl Bernstein, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...
...countryside the Sandinistas grabbed ranches and farms. Wilfredo Lopez Palma, an assembly deputy, took 2,650 acres in the department of Rivas. Luis Felipe Perez, the Sandinista mayor of the city of Leon, acquired a 600-acre farm. Mario Hurtado Jimenez, who headed the state Corporation of Aviculture, leased a chicken farm to himself on easy-to-pay terms. His rent: 500 dozen eggs a month...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Robert Ball, Carl Bernstein, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Marguerite Johnson, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias, Michael Walsh...