Word: murderes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obscurity, without benefit of videotape, about 10 weeks after the King beating. The body of a 16-year-old black youth named Eric McGinnis was found floating at the mouth of the St. Joseph River where it flows into Lake Michigan. How did Eric die? Accidental drowning? Racial murder? But in the "Twin Cities" on either side of the river--in the overwhelmingly black town of Benton Harbor, Mich., and in the overwhelmingly white community of St. Joseph--people's suspicions tend to be shaped by the folklores and assumptions that emerge from separate experiences, black and white...
...Side of the River (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday; 317 pages; $24.95), Kotlowitz attempts a kind of narrative mediation, shuttling back and forth across the bridge between the white and black universes--the somewhat gentrified white St. Joseph and the dirt-poor Benton Harbor, with its drug gangs and the highest murder rate in the country...
...musical's subject matter has not surprisingly provoked controversy. Relatives of the murder victims objected to what they feared would be the glorification of Agron, and they staged a protest at the show's first performance. Some members of the Latino community have complained that a white songwriter is perpetuating Puerto Rican stereotypes. "My fear is that the general public is going to see this as another Puerto Rican with a knife, and they will come out with that view of our community," says Melody Capote, executive director of the Caribbean Cultural Center in New York City. The show...
This is part of the reason why I am a Democrat, although I believe, to the core of my being, that abortion is not only morally wrong, but tantamount to murder. An oxymoronic reality? I voted to re-elect the President in 1996, not because I no longer felt abortion was a major issue or because my views had changed. Instead, I believed that a Democratic administration was the best hope to systematically reduce the number of abortions in this country. The goals of the party are to help strengthen and improve the social safety net this country so desperately...
...surprise you. In his recent book, Crossing the Threshold of Hope,Pope John Paul II wrote that in firmly rejecting pro choice it is necessary to become courageously pro-woman, promoting a choice that is truly in favor of women. The Catholic Church believes that abortion is murder, but also recognizes that simply saying so will not end the devaluation of life. Words will not end abortion. Deeds of compassion and understanding will...