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...long ago, the get-together in South Central Los Angeles would have been as difficult to imagine as a summit between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Last week 125 members of the First A.M.E. Church, the oldest and most influential black congregation in the city, traveled to a nearby mosque to worship with so-called black Muslims from the notorious Nation of Islam. The following night the Muslims reciprocated by attending a service at the church...
...often name youths who have been arraigned on offenses major enough to warrant their trial as adults. Even mainstream publications have begun to practice "outing" -- that is, disclosing the homosexual preferences of closeted celebrities. Most papers now clearly state in obituaries that individuals died of AIDS. Within days of Malcolm Forbes' death, several journals noted rumors about the publisher's gay affairs...
...that the reporter is always an acquiescent pawn: manipulation is a two- way street. In a series of New Yorker articles that was recently published in book form, writer Janet Malcolm argues that the journalist's power to play God with a source's life inevitably leads to treachery. She examines the case of best-selling author Joe McGinniss, who ingratiated himself (and shared a book contract) with Jeffrey MacDonald, a physician accused of brutally murdering his wife and children. But instead of writing the exculpatory tome that MacDonald had been led to expect, McGinniss produced a work of pitiless...
Publisher Malcolm Forbes, who died at 70 last month, was renowned for extravagant gestures, from hot-air ballooning over China to a $2 million birthday bash in Morocco. Last week Forbes Inc. employees received one last act of largesse from their late boss. In a memo, Forbes' son and successor Steve announced that, in accordance with his father's wishes, all 750 staffers would receive an extra week's pay. Moreover, up to $10,000 in loans from the company to any employee would be forgiven. "As Pop put it, 'Like a lottery, it's pure chance...
...them without their permission because they have become too burdensome or costly." The haunting precedent, of course, is the Nazi Holocaust, during which the chronically ill, then the socially unacceptable, and finally all non-Germans were viewed as expendable. In his stark essay "The Humane / Holocaust," Christian author Malcolm Muggeridge notes that "it took no more than three decades to transform a war crime into an act of compassion...