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...June blacks began a boycott of a Korean-owned store in South Central Los Angeles after the owner shot a black man he thought was a robber. Korean storekeepers have become a highly visible economic presence in what were traditionally black neighborhoods; blacks charge that the owners treat black customers like criminal suspects and fail to hire local workers. In the past six months alone, three blacks -- and two Koreans -- have been killed in Korean-owned stores. Though police concluded that the fatal shooting in South Central Los Angeles was justified, the boycott lasted four months, ending only after...
...post-Civil War boom, Mark Twain's child-man reveals his real name. Arrested in a stock swindle, the rising robber baron escapes from jail with the aid of Jim, nonstop talker and former slave, who has shrewdly invested in ^ Thomas Edison's recording machine and become the founding grandfather...
...often nullify the protection. They are especially prone to do so in cases involving serious crime. Reporters reply that the information being sought can be found in other ways or is not essential. In covering Charles Stuart -- the Boston man who claimed his wife was shot by a black robber, then confessed to the crime and committed suicide -- reporters Patricia Mangan of the Boston Herald and David Ropeik of the city's WCVB-TV suggested that Stuart's brother was complicit. The district attorney sued unsuccessfully to make them reveal sources, arguing that other means had been exhausted. Says Ropeik...
...1980s corporate raider going the way of the 1890s robber baron? Exhibit A: last week Carl Icahn, TWA chairman and high-stakes player during the Decade of the Deal, sold his 13.3% interest in Pittsburgh-based USX. Icahn became a force in the company in 1986, when takeover fever was at its height. He waged an unsuccessful 1990 proxy war to force the firm out of the steel business, but seemed to achieve partial victory in January when the company agreed to split its common stock into separate steel and energy issues -- an agreement that went into effect barely...
...police-training procedures, but he was on television the very next day touting his department as a "model" for the nation. Gates' eventual apology to King was equally grudging -- and began with two absurd irrelevancies: "In spite of the fact that he's on parole and a convicted robber, I'd be glad to apologize...