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...States has traveled. After the Civil War and Reconstruction, white supremacy reared its ugly head, rolling back the progressive laws enacted to secure the freedom and agency of black Americans. After 1877, the New South planted fields of cotton drenched in the blood of black men savagely murdered by lynch mobs that contained town sheriffs, in much the same way inner-city police continue to murder African-Americans without restraint, remorse or reproach...

Author: By Joshua D. Bloodworth, | Title: A More Perfect Union | 2/27/1997 | See Source »

...climbed as high as No. 3 on the charts, right behind Celine Dion and Kenny G. Rolling Stone magazine put Manson on its cover in January and proclaimed him Best New Artist of 1996. This week Manson makes his screen debut as a seedy porn actor in the David Lynch film Lost Highway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: SATAN'S LITTLE HELPERS | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...than when he smiles--the picture of boll-weevil evil. He's good at that. "Billy can organize all the madmen inside himself," says John Ritter, the Three's Company refugee who gets a career makeover as a gentle gay man in Sling Blade. "If Horton Foote and David Lynch ran at each other at 100 m.p.h. and collided head on, the result would be someone like Billy Bob." In his spare moments, Thornton got married. Four times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: BILLY BOB...OLIVIER? | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...Lakers' success is the result of a brilliant front office; general manager Jerry West orchestrated Shaquille O'Neal's signing brilliantly, trading away Anthony Peeler and George Lynch to Vancouver in order to free up the necessary money under the salary cap. The recent trade of Cedric Ceballos to Phoenix for Robert Horry underscored West's place as the NBA's top executive...

Author: By Ethan G. Drogin, | Title: A Tale of Two Franchises | 2/6/1997 | See Source »

...concern is for publicity for the soul of Walden Pond. I sign merely as someone who thinks strip-mining is inappropriate at a holy American shrine. --Edward L. Lynch '65 Walpole, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO THE EDITORS | 1/30/1997 | See Source »

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