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Harvard spent another quarter-million dollars to purchase 200 fiberboard "temporary housing units" from the Federal Public Housing Administration and erect them on any land they could find. Small communities of housing refugees sprang up near the Divinity and Business Schools on tennis courts and previously empty lawns...
...black bourgeoisie to the apex of political power is a warts-and-all portrait of a smooth operator. Holmes, a former TIME correspondent and now the chief race-relations reporter for the New York Times, notes that Brown's strength was making connections between the black world he sprang from and the white power structure. His weakness, which Holmes unflinchingly describes, was an inability to resist the financial and sexual rewards that came along as he clawed...
...recent protests in Washington, D.C., against the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank demonstrate that the opposition to the prevailing economic order that sprang into public view during December's WTO protests in Seattle has not disappeared. Instead, it has grown stronger, picking two new targets that before would never have imagined themselves the objects of public vilification. Although the calls by some protestors to disband the IMF and World Bank are unjustified, the real question is whether the institutions can reform themselves so as to give greater consideration to the interests of the global poor--and whether...
...government conspiracy--and not Ray--plotted the murder of the great civil rights leader. Its report, due out in a few weeks, concludes that the Kings' allegations are not "credible" and provide no basis for new criminal charges. In other words, they are hogwash. Considering that these lurid fantasies sprang from the fertile imagination of Ray's former lawyer William Pepper, the conclusion is no surprise...
When the cold war ended, a succession of murderous little wars took its place. Old hatreds that were held in check under the pressure of superpower rivalry sprang to life. It was both a familiar kind of bloodletting and a new kind. Security arrangements like NATO were of no use. They had been fashioned to keep East and West from resorting to long-range missiles, and were helpless at first to contain the face-to-face hatreds of Bosnia and Kosovo. Then there was Rwanda and Zaire, where each new episode of civil war and ethnic bloodlust created a small...