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...FORBES BUILDING IN NEW YORK City is in an odd neighborhood for a corporate headquarters: the fringe of Greenwich Village, set with sedate apartment buildings and churches from the 1840s. It's odd inside too: the ground-floor museum, founded by the late Malcolm Forbes Sr., is stuffed with presidential autographs, czarist Faberge eggs and toy soldiers. From this improbable aerie, Forbes' eldest son Malcolm ("Steve") Forbes Jr., the 48-year-old editor in chief of Forbes magazine, plans to descend into the scrum of Republican presidential politics. He could announce his candidacy as early as this week...
...radical politics, springing antisegregationist Freedom Riders from Southern jails. The experience changed his life and led to a client list that could serve as an American Dissidents' Hall of Fame: Martin Luther King Jr., Lenny Bruce, Al Sharpton, flag burner Gregory Johnson, Indian activist Leonard Peltier, Attica prison rioters, Malcolm X and-decades later-Malcolm's daughter Qubilah Shabazz. Kunstler's combative defense of the Chicago Seven brought him four years' worth of contempt citations (none of it served). His use of courtrooms as high- profile political platforms often worked to client's and cause's good, but not always...
...also edited a book on Malcolm X and co-authored a book in 1990 about the fortieth anniversary of the Marshall Plan...
...international conference in London. Called in response to the Srebrenica and Zepa debacles, the conference seemed likely to be yet another windy session in which the U.S. and European diplomats would issue meaningless threats. The chairman of this conference, however, was to be Britain's newly appointed Foreign Minister Malcolm Rifkind, who had arrived in Washington on a regularly scheduled visit just as Srebrenica was falling...
Right. But what did they say? And what did they mean? At the end of eight hours of discussion among foreign and defense ministers, British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind emerged to deliver the official summary of the meeting. He issued the Serbs a warning, but an ambiguous one, declaring that any attack on Gorazde, the last remaining safe area in eastern Bosnia, "would be met with a substantial and decisive response." Precisely what that response would be was not spelled out. The U.S. had gone into the meeting calling for sweeping air attacks on the Serbs. France favored sending more...