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WASHINGTON--House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Texas) has all but decided to resign, friends said yesterday, but he remained torn over details of his leaving and insisted he had "done no serious wrong" despite numerous ethics allegations...
...there were no black people here in this country, it would have been Balkanized. The immigrants would have torn each other's throats out, as they have done everywhere else. But in becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me -- it's nothing else but color. Wherever they were from, they would stand together. They could all say, "I am not that." So in that sense, becoming an American is based on an attitude: an exclusion...
...recent Radcliffe conference, Rutgers professor Ruth Mandel posed the dilemma of women who used to protest the hierarchy as "outsiders" now becoming "insiders"--torn between playing power games or infusing the system with new perspectives from their own lives and women's past...
...THESE people are absolutely shameless!" exclaimed Gerald Ford on Monday, denouncing Panama's election fraud. General Noriega's security forces have publicly torn ballots, closed voting areas and even beaten opposition candidates...
...Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip can not merely be summed up as a conflict between Arab and Jew, Palestinian and Israeli. So, when director Jo Franklin-Trout traveled to that war-torn area to present one of those sides in her documentary "Days of Rage: The Young Palestinians," she did not hope to achieve balance. Her goal was to present a view, however one-sided, and to present it accurately...