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...Marley, a poor Jamaican from Kingston's Trenchtown slum, who brought reggae to international prominence in the '70s with his albums Catch a Fire, Rastaman Vibration and Exodus. An outspoken champion of racial equality and social justice, Marley was also a tireless promoter of Rastafarianism, the pro-African sect whose followers grow their hair into long, matted dreadlocks and smoke marijuana, or ganja, as part of a religious rite...
While a more robust recovery would put people back to work faster, the slow but steady tempo has a positive side of its own. Among other things, it gives investors the confidence to put their money in longer-term investments. On Wall Street outspoken bulls insist that the stock market still has plenty of room to grow. Elaine Garzarelli, an investment strategist for Lehman Bros., looks for the Dow to hit 4000 by the end of the year and climb to 4600 in 1994. "My feeling is that any correction would be minor," Garzarelli says. "Interest rates would have...
Clinton and Aspin immediately jumped in to rescind the order, which they had never approved. Any new policies on the matter, Aspin flatly stated, would be submitted to him for review. The next day, Mundy, who had been outspoken in opposition to accepting gays in the service, performed his act of contrition at a press conference. He acknowledged "blind-siding" the President. "I just kicked this one in the grandstand," he said. "I did not adequately inform my civilian superiors of the policy." While many military experts sympathized with Mundy's concern for the impact of marriage troubles...
Harris' path to resignation was anything but straight. "There have been so many twists and turns in our policy that it's been a real roller-coaster ride," he says. Considered energetic and capable by his superiors, he proved unusually outspoken for a mid-level Foreign Service officer. In April he and 11 colleagues wrote a letter to Christopher urging military intervention to help the Muslims; the missive somehow leaked to the New York Times. In May, when Christopher asked the allies to lift the arms embargo against the Bosnian government and bomb Serb targets, "we were excited that...
Real-life attorneys grew more outspoken about the demonizing of lawyers after eight people at a San Francisco law firm were shot by an angry client last month. Harvey Saferstein, president of the California Bar Association, pressed for a "cease-fire" on lawyer bashing, characterizing it as a form of "hate speech." At least one advertiser felt the heat and backed down. Miller Lite decided to yank an ad showing cowboys roping divorce lawyers at a rodeo. But the enmity runs deep in the culture: after Saferstein spoke out publicly against such bashing, he received a slew of derisive calls...