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...least on the surface, Muhammad I. Kenyatta is a man of contradictions. He is 38 years old and a second-year student at the Law School. He is a Baptist minister who changed his name to that of the most sacred prophet of the Islamic church. He is a civil rights activist calling for a boycott of a Law School course on civil rights; a champion of Black causes who indirectly caused the re-election of a notoriously anti-Black mayor of Philadelphia...
NOBODY PAID MUCH attention last fall when Tip O'Neill predicted that the unemployment rate would hit 10 percent by the 1982 elections Yesterday, however, the Labor Department made a prophet out of the white-maned House Speaker by announcing that 10.1 percent of the American work force can't find a job. But whether the news of the highest jobless rate in 42 years will make electoral monkeys out of President Reagan and his fellow Republicans is another matter altogether...
Scalise proved himself to be a prophet yesterday afternoon as the Harvard booters completely outplayed Boston University out shooting the Terriers...
...legend. Killed while we were still too young to be aware of him, he now symbolizes a more turbulent, idealistic time a movement now seemingly defunct and a group who rose up defiantly to demand its freedom. We see him standing before the Lincoln Memorial an Old Testament prophet in the guise of a Baptist preacher both admonishing a nation for its transgressions and exhorting it to live up to a vision of brotherhood and equality. But while the image of King as a modern day Moses has become fixed the human being behind that image has lost focus...
...roots of Hussein's Hashemite dynasty are ancient, dating back to the 5th century patriarch Hashem, great-grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad. But the modern kingdom of Jordan is a recently contrived state with few natural boundaries and almost no tradition of nationalism. After the British wrested Palestine from the Ottoman Empire in World War I, they administered the region as a League of Nations mandate. The British put the territory east of the Jordan River, known as Transjordan, under the local rule of Hussein's grandfather Emir Abdullah. When Abdullah first pitched his tents in Amman...