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Ireland's Catholics had long identified with and supported America's abolitionist movements with a fervor they encouraged amongst their American kin. Religious persecution under the notorious British Penal Laws had driven Irish Catholics to New England by the thousands. As virtual slave laborers, the Irish ended up in black communities. They worked the same jobs, lived in the same neighborhoods, and engendered from the close, often intimate proximity, the first recorded incidence of 'mulattoes' as a census grouping in states like Pennsylvania...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In protest of President Clinton's signing of the telecommunications bill Thursday, the coordinators of the Voters Telecommunications Watch, an online anti-censorship group, have arranged for about 150 groups and individuals to turn the background color of their websites black or hang virtual blue ribbons on the sites. This protest of the bill's anti-smut and anti-abortion provisions will run for 48 hours, starting after Clinton signs the bill Thursday afternoon. Among the parts of the legislation being protested: making it illegal to transmit "indecent" materials to minors, or discuss where...
DURHAM, N.H.--Republican Presidential hopeful M. Steve Forbes used campaign stops in New Hampshire Saturday to clarify questions about the flat tax, the issue that has propelled him from a virtual unknown to the front-running candidate in the latest polls...
Imagine what Disney could do with this material. There could be a parade like the one down Main Street, Disneyland, with at least one real prince and one real princess on hand. There could be virtual beheadings in the computerized Tower of London. There could be Queen-for-a-Day Day at Buckingham Palace...
...This virtual hooliganism may sound absurd. For people who rely on the Internet to communicate, though, it's a real and growing problem. Like more conventional groups, racists have discovered that the Net is a marvelous way to get their message out to a huge audience at low cost. Last week the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the world's largest Jewish human rights organization, decided that enough is enough. Citing "the rapidly expanding presence of organized hate groups on the Internet," Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the center's associate dean, sent letters to hundreds of Internet access providers, asking them to help...