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...Rank of 1997 among the warmest years ever recorded...
...distressing that violence, beauty and celebrity rank higher than Mother Teresa, who dedicated her entire life to a noble cause." AARTI SWAMINARAYAN Mount Prospect...
...continued rank-and-file enthusiasm for the populist Winnie Mandela has sounded a warning to the party?s leadership: The impoverished majority have yet to see tangible benefits from the ANC?s moderate economic policy. To ensure their support at the polls, the party is likely to reclaim the banner of liberation by intensifying rhetorical attacks on white economic privilege. But these attacks are unlikely to translate into a policy shift...
...screamed loudest for the police to crack down on the crime wave. "The bosses would come back from community meetings with a string of complaints, and we were told to get on it--just get it done," says Blondie. Police supervisors, he says, had other pressures too: "Above the rank of captain, you get promoted mostly by who you know on the force and in politics. And the politicians scream as loud as the residents. Can you tell me when you ever heard a politician say he'd get tough on the cops for violating the civil rights of drug...
...childhood. There is the clapboard house where he lived until he was 12. Here is the elementary school. "Had my first dance with a girl there," he says. The reverie ends when Ball walks to the end of a pier where the sulfur smell of marsh grass rises, as rank as the tale he unspools. An estimated 40% of American slaves arrived first at this spot. Confused, terrified, usually sick, they spent two weeks quarantined in "pest houses" or onboard ship. Those who got better sailed on to Charleston and bondage. Those who didn't turned the island into...