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...thousands of students and sympathizers filled Beijing's Tiananmen Square, demanding greater democratization and an end to nepotism and corruption. On Saturday, May 20, with the government and the Chinese capital paralyzed, the curtain rang down ominously on Act I: Premier Li Peng, a principal target of the demonstrators' wrath, and President Yang Shangkun imposed martial law; troops from the People's Liberation Army (P.L.A.) mustered to enter the city...
WORKING DAYS: THE JOURNALS OF THE GRAPES OF WRATH...
Published 50 years ago, The Grapes of Wrath has taken its place among the handful of American novels (Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Jungle) that changed public attitudes and policy. To mark its golden anniversary, the book's original publisher has issued a new edition (Viking; $25) and also the journals Steinbeck kept during the five months (five months!) it took him to complete the 200,000-word manuscript...
Opponents of the joint project fear it will endanger American dominance of the aerospace industry. -- Exxon faces lawsuits and consumer wrath for its role in the Alaskan oil spill...
Like Lisa Bianco and April LaSalata, many women seek orders of protection to shield themselves from such wrath. As those two tragedies illustrate, however, such orders are often no more than paper tigers. Although provisions vary from state to state, all the laws subject men who violate these court orders to fines or jail terms. Yet men are seldom arrested for violations -- short of murder -- unless they are on the premises when police arrive. Meanwhile, the courts, still uncomfortable with domestic violence and faced with crowded prisons, tend to deal leniently with offenders...