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...company's image. Chrysler pulled out of the luxury field in the late 1980s to concentrate on Jeeps and minivans. But while that strategy proved profitable, it seemed to suggest that Chrysler could not compete when it came to high-quality cars. At the same time, Ford hopes to rev up sales of its once wildly popular Mustang with a retooled model that combines the silhouette of the '60s original with what the company calls sharper-edged and more contemporary styling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bigger, Faster...and Cheaper | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...most memorable conversation occured at an event to remember the troubled past of the city. On a sticky night in late July, I took a bus to the corner in the Central Ward where the Newark riots began 31 years before. The Rev. William Hayes housing projects once stood on this site, but now half these dead buildings have been dynamited into rubble and the rest wait to collapse. When I arrived at the 17th Avenue bus stop, a large crowd milled around preparing to march in memory of the uprising victims. Soon a youthful marching band, followed by dancers...

Author: By Jason R. Stevenson, | Title: Conversations in Newark | 10/29/1998 | See Source »

Among the tragic consequences of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination was that he was cut down before he could write his own assessment of his life. Now, 30 years after the murder, his family is attempting to fill the gap with the assistance of Clayborne Carson Jr., a Stanford University professor who edited King's papers. Sadly, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Warner Books, 400 pages, $25) does not deliver the sort of revealing self-examination that characterizes such powerful memoirs as the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass or The Autobiography of Malcolm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Clip Job | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

Many, not all of them Jewish, disagree. Some say the "evidence" on Pius is not all in, claiming that the Vatican has yet to open all pertinent archives. Others, like the Rev. Richard McBrien, a professor of theology at Notre Dame, feel they know enough to conclude that outrage on Pius' part "would have given pause to the Nazis and perhaps changed the complexion of what happened at the end of the war." McBrien contrasts Pius' silence with John Paul II's risky but successful support of Poland's Solidarity trade union in the 1980s. Some analysts speculate that valid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Martyr--but Whose? | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...Rev. Jamal Bryant, national youth director forthe NAACP, agreed that the University would loseout on a crucial opportunity by failing to open achapter...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Incorporate First NAACP Chapter at University | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

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