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...soirees modish once again. Thus for the well-to-do, basic black is a means of ostentatious discretion. On the other hand, the angry black of the new wave--dark glasses, sour black T shirts and scruffy black jeans--is more the anarchist's traditional black. It is neo-beatnik, the color correlate of the adolescent angst satirized by Chekhov. Why do you always wear black? Masha's suitor asks her in the opening scene of The Seagull. "I am in mourning for my life," the girl declares...
South Africa's mining magnates and millionaires have been meeting in the imposing Rand Club in downtown Johannesburg for more than a century. The neo-Baroque building is filled with paintings of such celebrated past members as British colonizer Cecil Rhodes and the ubiquitous portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. Built on the wealth of the largest goldfield in the world and the sweat of black labor, the club's membership was, until a few years ago, closed to South Africa's blacks. But these days, there's a new breed of tycoon walking the club's wood-paneled corridors...
...more than a year, a band of white supremacists known as the Order has waged its own private war against the "Zionist Occupation Government" of the U.S. In Seattle last week, federal officials continued their all-out attack on the neo-Nazi gang, announcing the indictment of 23 members under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). The indictment charges that members of the Order were responsible for crimes including counterfeiting, armored-car robberies and two murders, one of them the assassination of radio Talk-Show Host Alan Berg in Denver. It was the first time the RICO statute...
...late colleague at Harvard, Dr. Stephen J. Gould, once described the neo-Darwinist synthesis as “one of the half-dozen major scientific achievements in our century,” according to the New York Times...
...computer games would do it for most Americans. Some still aren’t. But as the years pass, the population will age, the old will die, the young will grow old, technology will continue to spread in our society and throughout the world, and inevitably (barring a resurgent neo-Luddite movement) within 30 years we will all be playing video games. There is no evidence that this hunger within us will ever die, even as our bodies age. And who would want it to? Nothing beats the rapid-fire thrill of a first person shooter, or the evocations...