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...inflamed against the white establishment, which at one point sentenced him to hard labor on a chain gang as punishment for his early civil rights protests. And he had every reason to be embittered by his black allies, for their acquiescence in the gay baiting. Yet somehow he rose above both. In one telling incident, he completed his sentence on the chain gang by writing a conciliatory letter to the sadistic white officer who ran the prison. Somehow, Rustin never succumbed to the anger that was his right; his spirit remained as light and as positive as his beautiful tenor...
DIED. THOMAS H. WYMAN, 73, head of CBS for three years; after surgery for an abdominal infection; in Boston. Wyman, a former Polaroid and Pillsbury executive who rose to the top of CBS before being ousted by founder William Paley in 1986 for allegedly suggesting that the network be sold to Coca-Cola, recently made news when he quit the Augusta National Golf Club to protest its males-only membership policy...
...near Ramallah. Then, as he tells it in the book, everything changed. In 1981, he says, the Israelis drove his family out and bulldozed their house to make room for a Jewish settlement. "For the first time in my life I felt an undreamed-of anger," Said says. "Hatred rose in me, an extreme hatred for everything Israeli." Said goes on to recount two decades filled with ever-more-violent incidents of humiliation and brutality. The military police, he says, arrested and tortured his father and uncle. They eventually arrested Said, who at 16 had joined the ranks...
...political scene." Born near Rotterdam, Bos is the son of an ambassador and has degrees in political science and economics from the University of Amsterdam. He became a Labor M.P. in 1998 and came to prominence as Tax Minister from 2000 to 2002. As his recent poll numbers rose thanks to superb TV- debate performances, his foes avoided the personal attacks that characterized the last election and contributed to the demonization, and perhaps even the murder, of Fortuyn. But with arguments against Labor policies failing to dent Bos' popularity, the CDA and its preferred coalition partner, the Liberals, have...
...Wine World Order The rise of Australian wine to superpower status just got confirmation. Constellation, of the U.S., agreed to a $1.1 billion merger with Australia's BRL Hardy, creating the world's largest wine firm. Last year Australian wine exports rose nearly 30%, good for 5% of the global market...