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...sterile, high-rise housing project in southeast London, Rolan Adams, a black teenager, steps out of one of the neighborhood's few youth clubs. A gang of whites jump him and stab him to death. Of the nine whites arrested, five are acquitted, and four still face trial. The Adams family is receiving phone calls from people who say they are glad Rolan is dead...
...spiritual seekers turned off by organized religion. Williamson, the daughter of an affluent Houston attorney, considers herself one of them. "The course was my personal path out of hell," she says. "There was little I hadn't tried or been through," including numerous sexual relationships, drugs and even a stab at singing nightclub jazz...
Rajiv's goal was to give his country reform, modernization, deregulation -- all catchwords underpinning his frequently quoted aim of "bringing India into the 21st century." But he failed to do so in his first stab at leadership, and whether he could have done so during a second time around had remained open to question. "Computerji," as he became known, long ago found that he and his privileged circle of technology lovers were not equal to the task of budging old-line party pros and the bureaucracy-infested Industrial Raj. As columnist Sunanda Datta-Ray remarked in the Statesman of Calcutta...
Perestroika has made little headway at the KGB, but the Soviet spies are taking a stab at glasnost. Even though KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov still delivers speeches with Stalinist overtones, his year-old public relations department is busy polishing the agency's image. It has opened a museum at headquarters in Moscow's Dzerzhinsky Square, allows some officers to give interviews and recently ran a Miss KGB contest in which women in bulletproof vests competed in skills like cooking, shooting, dancing, karate and applying makeup...
...cause that is just, moral and right; of the dangers of appeasement; of the need for sacrifice so that "the strong are neither tempted nor able to intimidate the weak." While he altered Churchill's "finest hour" to the rather less ringing "defining hour," the President did make a stab at the British Prime Minister's flinty eloquence as he prepared the country for a war that could prove long and bloody. "Let future generations understand the burden and blessings of freedom," he declared. "Let them say, 'We stood where duty required us to stand.' " His words of praise...