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Grief-stricken families are blessed with perhaps the most extensive media attention, so victims can charge far more in case of their death--to be paid to their estates of course. Reporters love to surround parents who have had children recently slain, probing the emotional impact of the story in a sensitive yet hard-hitting manner...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Terrorism's Untapped Potential | 9/24/1987 | See Source »

Ever since the three-year conflict that left more than 1 million Koreans , and Americans dead, every stress and strain in relations between North and South has carried the possibility of another conflagration. The latest tensions surround North Korea's ongoing construction of a huge dam just north of the 151-mile Demilitarized Zone. South Koreans are convinced that, once completed, the dam will pose a major danger to Seoul. They fear that it will either collapse because of poor workmanship or, in a darker view, be deliberately burst by the Communists, perhaps as a prelude to invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scenes From a Neighbor | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

...consider justice, not in terms of objective standard--which may be free of racial motivations--but in the terms of a frightened city dweller who had previously been mugged by Blacks. There was no effort made to describe the appropriate response when four tough looking men of any color surround a person on the subway...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Courts Become Streetwise | 6/28/1987 | See Source »

...back to Goetz. What the jury decided was that the parameters for an individual's right to use deadly force in self-defense have been greatly expanded. If you are a young tough kid, carrying a potentially dangerous weapon, possessing a past history of criminal offenses, and you surround a subway passenger and ask him for money, it's open season on you. That's the issue that needs to be discussed. But too many critics of the Goetz opinion discount the fact that white hoods can travel in packs and harass Black people too. By their reasoning, the Black...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: Racism Red Herring in Goetz Verdict | 6/28/1987 | See Source »

Some winners were quick to discount stereotypes which they said surround the awards. "I think I'm pretty interested in my classes but I'm not a geek by an standards," said Sarah Stroud...

Author: By Susanna L. Blumenthal, | Title: Radcliffe Women Win Phi Beta Kappa Keys | 4/11/1987 | See Source »

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