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BOOKS . . . HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK: Fresh from the mega-success of 'Waiting to Exhale,' Terry McMillian is bragging that she got a $6 million advance for her new novel. Unfortunately, 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back' is a silly wish-fulfillment fantasy that barely qualifies as beach literature, says TIME's John Skow. Heroine Stella Payne is a beautiful, single, 'forty-bleeping-two-year-old' black securities analyst who, though sexy and rich, hasn't had a date in months. Tired of waiting for a black prince to materialize in a paid-for Lexus, she flies to Jamaica...
...RESIDENTS OF MONROEVILLE, ALABAMA, the case of Walter McMillian was life eerily imitating art. McMillian, a black man accused of a murder he didn't commit, watched his drama unfold in the place considered the setting for the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, a wrenching tale of racial injustice in the white-picket world of the rural South...
...McMillian spent the past six years on Alabama's death row for the 1986 murder of a young white woman and always argued that racial prejudice figured in his fate. Although half a dozen witnesses testified that he'd been home at a fish fry at the time of the killing, the middle-aged father was found guilty after a trial that lasted a mere day and a half. His conviction rested primarily on the testimony of three men, one of whom, a convicted criminal, said he saw McMillian hovering over the victim's body after the shooting. Last week...
Quarterback Willie McMillian leads the Cadets' one-dimensional, but curiously potent, offense. In two games, he has carried the ball 50 times, collecting 308 yards and four touchdowns...
...discrimination. Ryskamp's membership went unnoticed in 1986, when the Senate confirmed his judgeship for Florida's Southern District. Last week the devout Presbyterian elder resigned from the club, but foes were unappeased. "The federal appeals courts usually have the last word in civil rights cases," says Johnnie R. McMillian, president of the Miami-Dade N.A.A.C.P. "Elevation of Judge Ryskamp would reduce the President's promise of racial fairness to a cruel hoax." About 100 civil liberties, labor and Jewish organizations have written to the committee to echo that view...