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...Everyone we compete with has recently renovated or built new courts," Piltch says. "Their squash facilities are relatiely superior...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Playing the Ultimate Team Sport | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

...core of the problem seems to be the determination of almost every group to feel superior to others. In some countries, those emotions have been codified into discriminatory laws like South Africa's apartheid, but even without them, ethnic hatred can make itself felt. Traditionally, that attitude was labeled racism. But the term can hardly embrace attacks as diverse as those on black Americans in New York City, North African workers in Italy, Arab immigrants in France, Romanies (Gypsies) in Czechoslovakia, Hungarians in Romania. Very few Jews are left in Central Europe after Hitler's Holocaust, but the anti-Semitism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Discrimination An Outbreak of Bigotry | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

They are scheduled to be arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court on May 30, said Marsha Cohen, a spokesperson for District Attorney L. Scott Harshbarger...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Harvard Square LSD Distributers Indicted | 5/18/1990 | See Source »

...military, the rules are different. Subordinates are duty-bound to obey the orders of their superiors. If a superior issues an order that, say, Blacks and whites will henceforth serve in the same units, soldiers have no choice but to obey. Because of the inherent authoritarian nature of the military, the government can promote social reform in a way that is simply impossible in other arenas...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: It's a Great Place to Start | 5/16/1990 | See Source »

...year ago that Sacramento police found Danielle Bock, 17, shot dead in the street. Within a week prosecutors brought a murder charge against Richard Jason Singleton, 19. But it will be January 1991 at the earliest before Singleton comes to trial. Not until December did the case reach superior court. Although Singleton had demanded an immediate trial before that hearing, he later asked for a continuance. The prosecutors agreed, and thus it will be almost two years since Bock's death before her accused killer faces a jury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death by Gun: One Year Later | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

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