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Thanks to Reagan's tax cuts, the rich were able to fill their garages with Porsches. Meanwhile, the poor were watching their streets become battle grounds, drug lord squaring off against drug lord. While the average person in the top two quintiles of income got wealthier during the Reagan era, the rest of the country got poorer...
...trouble erupted again when a white man in a luxury car reportedly fired into a crowd of Blacks in the area yesterday afternoon, wounding one person before driving away...
Trump, the 21st person to be featured in TIME's Profile section, is the department's first cover subject. Since the section was introduced 14 months ago, TIME staffers have traveled to northern India to interview the Dalai Lama, to London to speak with hospice pioneer Cicely Saunders and to Cambridge, England, to explore the cosmos with physicist Stephen Hawking. "Since the magazine's founding, one of TIME's great strengths has been to give readers a very strong and multidimensional look at people," says executive editor Ronald Kriss. "Our aim is not just to chronicle what they...
Jordan does not see his support for Omega Psi Phi as detracting from his goal to be a role model for youngsters of all races. "I try to be seen as Michael Jordan the person, not as black or white," he says. "I guess I am a pioneer, and at some time I may come up against a racial barrier, but at least I have cleared...
...trees. He once even persuaded Club Med to rescue and care for two exhausted TreePeople volunteers in Senegal who had fallen ill while planting fruit trees in famine-stricken African countries. "I don't know how many bureaucrats have laughed us off over the years," he muses. "Then one person says, 'Maybe we can help you.' That's vital to voluntarism...