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...that it contains no reference to any mention of Judge Thomas' private parts or sexual prowess. Why didn't you tell the FBI about that?" Having begun the week under fire for their sexism, the Senators ended the week accused of acting like a high-tech lynch mob. "I would have preferred an assassin's bullet," Thomas declared, to the ordeal they had reserved...
...then he became a candidate himself. In 1987 he thought the new, liberal Haitian constitution was a fancy-dress costume being worn by a brutal dictatorship; as President he learned to use it well. A longtime champion of human rights, he has been reticent until very recently about condemning mob violence...
...Gambino crime family is not usually known for good works. Its deeds are more likely to be chronicled in FBI reports about the Mob. There is one place, however, where the surname Gambino gets respect: Schneider Children's Hospital in New Hyde Park, N.Y., which has received a $2 million gift from Thomas and Joseph Gambino in memory of their late father Carlo. The money is funding a + pediatric bone-marrow-transplant unit, the only such facility in the state. When it opens, it will bear the Gambino name...
...mob formed at the accident scene and flowed like quicksilver into the surrounding streets. Three hours later, Yankel Rosenbaum, 29, a visiting Hasidic scholar from Australia, was stabbed to death by a group of marauding black youths intent on avenging Cato's death. A 16-year-old was charged with the murder...
...Civil Rights Museum when it opens its doors in Memphis at the end of August. Here the sit-in movement will be commemorated by four mannequins seated at a Southern lunch counter as the wall behind them broadcasts footage of the taunts and attacks of an actual white segregationist mob. Will these exhibits be inspiring, living history or a parody of the Disney style? What is one to make of a museum whose board chairman, Tennessee Circuit Judge D'Army Bailey, says seriously that "I wanted not only sirens and barking dogs, but I even envisioned a whiff of tear...