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...Kirkus is stunned by "Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Path of the World's Most Precious Stones" by Greg Campbell (Westview; September), giving it a starred review. "The sorry role the diamond has played in the history of Sierra Leone, stunningly told by journalist Campbell ('The Road to Kosovo,' 1999)...Readers of Campbell's horrific tale - from killing fields to corporate boardrooms and all the seedy, murderous, and pathetic characters that fall between - who don't demand proof-of-source on any diamond purchase ought to have their ethics examined...
...Westview Presbyterian Church
...pressure for changing the rules, Sanford is publishing a book in June, A Danger of Democracy (Westview Press; 184 pages), analyzing the selection process. In it he cites the need for "thinking delegates" who carefully deliberate on their choice for President. Like other critics of the present system, Sanford wants to liberate convention delegates from their rigid commitment to a particular candidate. Under the present system, the delegates have virtually no flexibility to adapt to changing political conditions once they are selected, says Sanford. "They are instructed and bound more precisely than when they were bound and driven...
Once a matter of shoving or fistfights, assaults today often result in bloodshed and even death. Last September an eighth-grader in Dade County's Westview Junior High died after a classmate smashed his face with a padlock during a lunchtime brawl. Just two weeks ago a 15-year-old boy was fatally stabbed in the chest at John Adams High School, in the Queens section of New York City, while his screaming girlfriend watched helplessly. On Dec. 5, a Los Angeles high school gang stabbed one victim and beat a second with a heavy belt buckle. Attacks against...
HAROLD HUNTER Westview...
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