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...Portland, Dees and colleague Elden Rosenthal are asking a $10 million punitive judgment against WAR and the Metzgers. A member of WAR's Portland affiliate, East Side White Pride, was convicted last year of murder in the 1988 beating death of Mulugeta Seraw, a 27-year-old Ethiopian man; two other members were convicted of first-degree manslaughter in the case. Metzger, a television repairman, and his son run WAR from their family's home in Fallbrook, Calif., north of San Diego. The organization's cable-television show, Race and Reason, is carried on 50 cable-access channels...
...movement to rewrite history along broader racial and ethnic * lines is making for livelier and more accurate instruction. California's public school system adopted new history and social-studies guidelines in 1987. Now, for example, students study feudalism as it occurred in Japan as well as in Europe. In Portland, Ore., elementary school teachers can select African-American examples for their history, science or music lessons from materials prepared by experts in each field. "America is, and has been from the beginning, a multicultural and multiracial society," says Charlotte Crabtree, director of the UCLA-based National Center for History...
...Society conspires in that belief. Sports stars move in a rarefied world of privilege where good grades, money, drugs and sex are readily available and transgressions are easily forgiven. "After all, the group-think rationale goes, rules are for others, not for heroes," points out psychologist Toni Farrenkopf of Portland, Ore. Communities are outraged when minority youths are involved in sexual assaults, but when revered athletes are implicated, the response is commonly a tut-tutted "Boys will be boys" and a sotto voce variation of "She asked...
...workweeks as yuppie lunacy, just as they shirk from starting another social revolution. Today's young adults want to stay in their own backyard and do their work in modest ways. "We're not trying to change things. We're trying to fix things," says Anne McCord, 21, of Portland, Ore. "We are the generation that is going to renovate America. We are going to be its carpenters and janitors...
Local governments in Berkeley, Portland, Ore., and Glen Cove, N.Y., have banned the material, forcing McDonald's to switch to paper packaging. About a dozen other cities have enacted similar restrictions, and hundreds more towns have considered such laws...