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...path of a bulldozer, Brown was elected to the Tasmanian parliament the day after his release -- one of five "green" M.P.s who hold the balance of power in Australia's smallest state. Today he speaks out regularly on such issues as nuclear disarmament and the dangers of a runaway greenhouse effect. "This is an intellectual and emotional revolution," says Brown. "If we don't have a future, then we haven't got a present...
...just released second album debuted in one trade publication at the very top of the charts. Her first single, a rhapsodic rendering of Prince's ballad Nothing Compares 2 U, is also a runaway hit, currently No. 4 on the Billboard Top 100 and threatening to scale the peak. No wonder she can title her album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. Easy for her to say. It looks very much like Sinead (say it Shin-aid) O'Connor will have...
...switch reflects the growing peril of runaway borrowing. Last year 68,112 U.S. firms filed for bankruptcy vs. 10,622 in 1981. And the failures are getting larger. The assets of bankrupt companies totaled $67 billion in 1989, up 52% from the previous year. The 1990 pace could be even quicker. Since January the Wall Street firm Drexel Burnham Lambert (assets: $3.6 billion) and , the U.S. retailing arm of Canada's Campeau Corp. ($9 billion) have sought protection from creditors. They joined such major companies as Eastern Air Lines and LTV Corp., the third largest U.S. steel company, which...
Father Bruce Ritter, founder of Covenant House, the nation's most successful program for runaway teenagers, hoped that by resigning he would end the controversy that has engulfed the organization since four young men accused him of sexual misconduct. Instead, the turmoil mounted. The state attorney general has widened an investigation to include personal loans that Ritter and other Covenant House officials obtained from the organization, possibly in violation of state...
...July 18, 1863, the blacks of the 54th Massachusetts led a virtually suicidal assault upon Fort Wagner, a massive Confederate earthwork guarding the approach to Charleston, S.C., harbor. At a critical moment in Glory's version of the attack, Trip, the runaway slave-soldier played by Denzel Washington, seizes the American flag and runs forward with it to his death. His death says this: "I did not want your white man's flag; earlier I refused the 'honor' of carrying it. But I will do it now, dying with other black men, because, understand me, we are citizens...