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...father of her child that sends Sarah into orbit. It's the notion that after he is identified and tracked down, this particular white man, so trashy, so hopelessly incorrect politically and socially, could have ^ provided half the genetic material for her talented, pretty daughter Zora (Nia Long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweet Nothings | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

What next? Cedric McClester, author of Kwanzaa: Everything You Always Wanted to Know but Didn't Know Where to Ask, has created Nia Umoja, "an African answer to Santa Claus." The character, who is supposed to represent an African griot, or wise man, wears a Nehru-style suit and joins hands with youngsters to ask what they have learned about Kwanzaa. Says McClester: "Kwanzaa needed a character because we need to attract younger people and their parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tidings Of Black Pride and Joy | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

Despite its bitter opposition to the Fidelity takeover, Bank-America maintained last week that it was "too early to tell" what kind of impact the merger would have on the Califor nia banking market. "We're not trembling with trepidation because Citicorp is coming to California," said Spokesman Ronald Owens. "We're ready to take on all entrants to this market. It just means the competition is going to get a little heavier." Bank-America, which must still receive the approval of the Federal Reserve Board for its own bold move out of traditional banking, the purchase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cash Clash | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

...ALTERNATIVE to pro-corporate reindustrialization. Lekachman argues, the left must mobilize around a plan for democratic control of investment decision. A National Investment Authority (NIA) he suggests, could withold subsidies from defense contractors who refuse to convert to civilian production. An and NIA would subsidize local co-ops, church-sponsored housing, and small farmers rather than lumbering auto makers. Lekachman calls for closing tax loopholes--which channel resources into unproductive uses--and redirecting the proceeds to pay for the NIA and for expanded social welfare services. Inflation should be fought not by wage concessions but by controls on oligopolistic price...

Author: By Chuck Lane, | Title: Dismantling Reaganomics | 4/20/1982 | See Source »

...civil ceremony. Her first marriage, to a man named Frank Kallas, initially seemed to be no problem; she said Kallas was dead. But then, only two days after the wedding to Carey, he turned up again, alive and just about to open a restaurant in Califor nia. Mrs. Carey contends her Kallas marriage was invalid in any case because he was married to someone else at the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Double Trouble | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

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