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...STEVIE WONDER didn't have much, but he did have his music--plus a beloved nanny. Now a multimillionaire and deeply spiritual guy, Wonder traveled to Israel's remote Negev desert last week to search for his former nanny; he believes she is living among the Black Hebrews, a splinter Jewish sect whose adherents (above, with Wonder) claim to be descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. By week's end, however, the singer still hadn't found his long-lost care giver. But the trip wasn't a total loss: Wonder performed concerts in Jerusalem and Ramat...
Sikh separatists claimed responsibility today for a car bomb that killed 16 people in northern India, including Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, outside government headquarters. But New Delhi bureau chief Dick Thompson reports that that Punjabi Sikhs are so disgusted by the violence that the incident promises to splinter the minority drive for independence. "The last few years have witnessed a relative peace here and some remarkable agricultural prosperity, and already there's a palpable resentment that the violence could come back as a result of this." Before Singh, Thompson says, Hindus were commonly hauled out of public buses...
...September 25, Shannon Hall, the location ofthe Center for International Affairs (CFIA),suffered a violent bomb attack by theWeathermen--a radical splinter of SDS. Theexplosion caused physical damage to the buildingand ignited fear around campus...
...made is unpopular, Jewett concedes. So his conclusion must therefore derive from some false notion of leadership, a quality incumbent to effective administration but which, in this case, has been applied in a misguided manner. For randomization will have little effect on campus diversity. It will simply splinter groups that otherwise lack common meeting places...
...friend of Republicanism, we were still surprised at the level to which the The Crimson "news" staff will sink. Reporter Michael Luo's article "Republican Groups Trade Insults, Allegations" (news story, May 8, 1995) was nothing more than a forum in which members of the Republican' splinter group could air specious grievances against the Harvard Republican Club (HRC). And, thanks to the selective reporting of Luo, the charges could be made without the fear of a serious response...