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Relics of the past, slowly decaying, can be seen everywhere. Far above the capital stands one of the Shah's palaces, now a sort of museum where schoolchildren gaze in wonder at the cavernous rooms full of crystal and gold. In front of the palace, half of the great bronze statue of the former ruler can still be seen; the monument was severed at the waist during the revolution...
...quickly set for the Senate debate in a scathing speech by Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy: "Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of government...
...local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, architect of the original Brown case, declined to participate when Smith and the parents of 15 other black Topeka schoolchildren intervened in 1979. The chapter's combative president, Kenneth Hill, charged that the black lawyers who recruited Smith and her fellow plaintiffs "were not fighting for the kids in the schools at all. They were fighting for the leadership of blacks and all the empty honors they can get." The plaintiffs turned to the American Civil Liberties Union for legal assistance. It took seven years for the case...
...impact of divestiture by making farewell investments in social programs. Coke pledged to spend $10 million during the next five years to fund a foundation to assist education and development among South Africa's "disadvantaged." IBM left $10 million for a literacy program to aid 37,000 black schoolchildren. Many companies that divested their South African holdings had been setting aside some of their earnings for social services, but some of their successors have refused to take on those commitments...
...response to your article on the auctioning of Van Gogh's Sunflowers ((LETTERS, May 4)). A reader states that "paintings were meant to be enjoyed by individuals with taste and an understanding of the artist's talent. They were not meant to be viewed by hundreds of schoolchildren being shooed past canvas-laden museum walls on the way to the cafeteria." The attitude displayed here is one of blatant elitism, which not only equates the enjoyment of art with a certain level of education but also implies that "taste" will be found exclusively among the rich, who can afford...