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Surviving members of the Romanov family--who had come from addresses as diverse as Paris; Oakland, Calif.; New South Wales; and East Sussex--kept a low profile. Those who spoke Russian did so in an archaic St. Petersburg accent that has all but disappeared. Some, such as the mayor of Palm Beach, Fla., Paul Ilinsky, never learned the language. They were restrained in their comments on Nicholas and made no claim to any stake in Russia's political future...
...brave new world compared with the one I grew up in. The murder in Jasper, Texas, of a black man who was dragged to his death by three white subhumans: 40 years ago, that town of 8,000--30% black--would have rallied round the subhumans. Today the mayor declared that the established bond between black and white would hold. And the dead man's family told opportunist politicians that he was not a national symbol...
Nine congressional candidates, a candidate for lieutenant governor, a city councillor, the vice mayor, a half-dozen members of the Progressive Students Labor Movement (PSLM) and several representatives of the Painters and Allied Trades Union descended on the Yard last Thursday to protest a Harvard contractor they say is opposing its workers' efforts to unionize...
Cambridge Vice Mayor Anthony Galluccio, amongthe protesters Thursday, sent a letter toPresident Neil L. Rudenstine last week urging theUniversity to implement a similar policy...
...Chicago fully expected his new study on the inner-city drug trade would provoke debate. The main contention, based on extensive research in two poor Milwaukee neighborhoods, is that dealers should be regarded as "innovative" and "entrepreneurial" and that their "work" is driven by economics, not immorality. But Milwaukee Mayor JOHN NORQUIST has essentially put the kibosh on any substantive discussion of the professor's controversial ideas among city officials and policymakers by calling the report "twisted" and the product of "drug-addled minds." Though Hagedorn figured critics would try to label him as soft on crime, he was initially...