The Continuing Crisis
• Like a live grenade at a PLO reunion, blame for the Rodney King riots was tossed about every which way in May, and when the dust settled for Memorial Day, the liberals declared themselves cleaner...
...Death-row inmates already enjoy rich last-meal menus...
...King the "Dred Scott of the Era...
...Kennedy will teach environmental policy studies at Stanford's Washington campus next winter, where the pickings should be easier...
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...The Los Angeles riots had other spillover effects...
...Was Murphy Brown right to eschew marriage...
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...As only he can, the New York Times's Anthony Lewis covered all twelve steps in one leap and said the riots "showed us an American society that has lost its way...
...In the south central waters of California's Monterey Bay, marauding gangs of killer orcas devoured countless gray whale females and calves, and the U.S...
...Coast Guard was nowhere to be seen...
...Or was Brown confusing Bush with Broward County Circuit Judge J. Leonard Fleet, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who waved a .38-caliber revolver at a probation violator who'd threatened to kill him and dared the unruly defendant to "take your best shot...
...Giving New Age meaning to the term Fighting Irish, Miss McGrath said Mr...
...mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly ordered the mandatory distribution of colorful condoms to all high-schoolers in the district...
...permission to register to vote...
...Unlike Raisa, "he's got the eyes...
...Murray replied when later asked how he could have forgotten about his son...
...He looked right at me, deeply...
...The French president's weird reading was seconded by California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, who predicted a political boom for "people who look like George Bush, sound like George Bush, and advocate like George Bush, i.e., a kind of police state mentality...
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...According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 75 percent of Arkansans want him to resign if he wins the Democratic presidential nomination...
...Michael Murray of Millbury, Massachusetts...
...Bush's rhetoric fails to "bespeak the interconnectedness of all peoples...
...Mark Ndesandjo of San Francisco, who named Mr...
...Irene Vance of Corte Madera recounted...
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...Although an unusually large number of death sentences were carried out across the nation in May, the movement toward choice made headway in the realm of capital punishment...
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...What does it say when Libyan radio has greater credibility than an American Democrat...
...As things stand, Clinton can follow the lead of the defeated Philippine presidential candidate Miriam Defensor Santiago, who on May 23 began a liquid fast to protest election fraud...
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...The Washington Post's Hobart Rowen went one step beyond to introduce America's search for a post–Cold War enemy: "The riots...
...The garage was dark," Mr...
...An even broader, historical view was taken by Mr...
...Like a live grenade at a PLO reunion, blame for the Rodney King riots was tossed about every which way in May, and when the dust settled for Memorial Day, the liberals declared themselves cleaner and the conservatives dirtier than ever...
...In a milestone for the Excellence in Education movement, Washington, D.C...
...But not before America bared its soul to the world...
...On May 6, the good bishop resigned amidst reports that he'd paid a six-figure sum to a woman whose child he sired...
...Oh, about 230 pounds," say voices from the back of his campaign plane...
...Was the Great Society a disaster...
...Yes, if otherwise it would have meant marrying anyone at all like Mr...
...Michael T. Petrik, a criminal-justice professor who teaches an "alternatives to prison" course at Nassau County Community College, confessed to helping two felons escape from the Mid-Orange Correctional Facility in Warwick, New York, and the District of Columbia's push toward statehood was slowed when a D.C...
...Security Council, Kenya and China scorned American "hypocrisy," Libyan radio announced that George Bush "is not fit to be President," and Francois Mitterrand mocked the "results" of President Bush's "extremely conservative political ideology...
...Iraq called for a special meeting of the U.N...
...An expert in the field is Bishop Eamonn Casey of Galway, a friend of the Third World who in 1984 won everlasting fame for refusing to meet with President Reagan...
...Arkansas governor Bill Clinton, father to 12-year-old Chelsea, may not be governor come August...
...Benjamin Barad, of Palm Beach, Florida, who is suing Amtrak for what little it's worth over a commode that backfired, leaving him skunk-filthy and unwashed for twelve hours because the train had no running water...
...Fuller portrays him as "an unscrupulous demagogue whose one aim was power, and a general who could not only win brilliant victories but also commit dismal blunders...
...Naturally, the world liked what it heard...
...Several pressing matters can be settled right here and now...
...Barad retired recently after forty-five years as a hygiene teacher...
...Social and political reform is never easy...
...It is a lucid study of the ways in which political and economic changes since the French Revolution have altered both the techniques and aims of war...
...What is Clinton up to these days...
...Thanks to Great Society–imposed safety regulations, the tot survived his eventual fall...
...After a visit to his 8 The American Spectator July 1992 working spouse on Mother's Day, Mr...
...The Senate is currently reviewing grants for such projects as the mating habits of aggressive Nicaraguan fish, the life cycle of swallowtail butterflies, and the behavior of bidders at public auctions...
...Kennedy seems a logical choice to examine why wind power, a favored Northern California alternative energy source, has brought death to at least 567 eagles and hawks in Alameda and Contra Costa counties over the past two years...
...Not for Ross Perot, the undeclared one-man third party who made his fortune shuffling the paperwork generated by Medicare...
...Evangelist Mikhail Gorbachev brought his May Day tour to nine U.S...
...In San Francisco, over 4,000 groupies read books and drank heavily while standing in line up to four hours for a chance to see him...
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...Better yet, he might look into the environmental hazards posed by pressurized toilets on board Amtrak's auto train...
...For instance, who can explain why a lock of Lord Byron's hair was expected to fetch only $900 at Bonham's auction house in London, whereas a black leather jacket once owned by John Lennon sold for $43,100 at Christie's on May 7? Meanwhile, Mr...
...Murray packed their 20-month-old daughter into the family car, left the 3month-old in a car seat atop the sunroof, and drove off...
...Patent and Trademark Office rejected the red-white-and-blue condom flag trademark designed by the Old Glory Condom Corporation for a product that has all the earmarks of a national treasure...
...James M. McPherson $14.95 THE GENERALSHIP OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT "Of all General Fuller's brilliant books, this is his masterpiece...
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...Patrick Buchanan met with Korean-American property owners in Los Angeles, and at commencement exercises at the University of Notre Dame, President Bush was verbally assaulted by Valedictorian Sarah J. McGrath...
...According to a plan proposed by California Attorney General Dan Lungren, a condemned inmate would be allowed to choose between lethal injection or the gas chamber...
...Lame-duck president Donald Kennedy of Stanford remains proud of his work, contending that "no one profited" from the $200 million the university overcharged the feds, "that the mistakes were honest ones...
...Plans to extend the program to this summer's crop of tourists came to naught when the U.S...
...The latest victim is Mr...
...The holy man did not disappoint...
...He turned around and grabbed my hand," the palpitant Mrs...
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