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...verdict in the Goetz case does present an example of how subtle racism--the kind that is captured in statistical surveys--can play itself out in a tangible way. When courts consider the racially-linked paranoia of a crime victim, race becomes an issue. When courts indulge this paranoia, the verdict has aspects of race...
...have no appreciation for what your parents and grandparents went through to get you here. I don't believe this is true. I've talked with you. I visited your classes. You know that racism and discrimination have not vanished into history, that they are as much in the present as in the past, and that your goal is to not let it pass into the future. You know that as long as our children are denied equal access to the American Dream, your work must...
...diversion plan will depend on the testimony of North and Rear Admiral John Poindexter, the former National Security Adviser. Poindexter is scheduled to appear on July 7 and North later in the month. The committees' investigators have been grilling Poindexter in secret sessions without any of the legislators present, an arrangement the chairmen apparently agreed to in order to prevent leaks. But there was an understanding that if Poindexter produced any bombshells, such as having briefed Reagan on the diversion, the chairmen would be promptly notified. So far, Poindexter's inquisitors have been silent -- an auspicious signal for the President...
...Soviet Union is always ready to present the necessary information about Nazi war crimes. That is not true. What about the Soviets' refusal to admit guilt in the Katyn Forest massacre, where more than 4,400 Polish officers were killed during World...
Beginning on Friday June 5, the Allegis board conducted several emergency meetings through telephone conference calls. Then Ferris convened a 3 p.m. session last Tuesday at the Manhattan offices of Morgan Stanley, one of the airline's investment bankers. Among the 17 directors present were Ferris, Olson, former Secretary of Commerce Juanita Kreps, Chairman Richard Cooley of Seattle's Seafirst banking company, and Charles Luce, former chairman of New York City's Consolidated Edison power company. The directors were ready for decisive action, and before the meeting had even started, Luce told Chairman Ferris that...