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Henry's eyes blaze with the memories of the human cost of that victory. Because 14-year-old Emmett Till, down from Chicago to visit relatives, allegedly whistled at a white woman, he was beaten, shot and then thrown into the Tallahatchie River in 1955. An all-white jury acquitted two white men of the killing. In 1963 Henry's N.A.A.C.P. associate, Medgar Evers, was gunned down in the driveway of his home in Jackson. His accused murderer, Byron de la Beckwith, was freed when all-white juries failed to reach a verdict. Now the state, seeking to atone...
Yeltsin has promised to resurrect private farming on a grand scale, making land available to every peasant who wants to till his own fields rather than toil for a collective or state farm. Russia already has a private-property law on the books, though Gorbachev gags at endorsing one for the whole Soviet Union. Yeltsin promises to strengthen it and to bring about the "rebirth of entrepreneurship," promoting the formation and expansion of privately owned companies in "any business." Further, he proposes departizatsiya, or departification, meaning that the ubiquitous Communist Party committees should have nothing to do with running factories...
...killed him in a car. Bango! Shot twice in the back of the head. Then we went a few blocks to throw the guns away and clean up. I went around the corner to a bar and waited till it came on the TV news at 11. I said, "Christ, they killed my best friend." I was pretending like I was crying, and guys are coming over to me. Everybody hated this guy. But this was my alibi. See, people in the bar said I'd been there all night. Fifty people would have sworn that I was there since...
...that are particularly sensitive to cyclical swings in business activity are hard pressed to notice any improvements yet. The hotel business has suffered deeply as such corporate giants as IBM and AT&T have slashed their travel budgets to hold down costs. "Our company logo ought to be SURVIVE TILL '95," says Darryl Hartley-Leonard, president of the Hyatt chain. "We cannot assume that this is just the typical business cycle of an American recession. In my 27 years in the business, I've never seen anything like this...
...means to him, Ramos recounts one of the island's Christmas Eve traditions, during which a group of friends go from home to home. At each stop, they are served food and then go on to the next house, taking with them their previous host. The revelry goes on till dawn. "They're very community-centric," he says...