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Lefever's bitter resignation letter to Reagan began: "I am blameless of the charges and innuendoes against my integrity and my compassion. I do not wish any longer to put up with the kind of suspicion and character assassination that some of my adversaries have used to besmirch my...
In an interview with TIME a few hours after resigning, Lefever said he quit because "my wife and I were getting fed up with the constant reiteration of false allegations-that I am for sale, or for rent, that I lacked compassion, that I did not care about the torture...
Despite her successes, Byrne plunged in popularity polls. In a Chicago Tribune sampling last December, just 3% of residents rated the quarrelsome mayor "excellent" and 46% rated her "poor." But she dramatically recovered her standing in April through a public relations gesture that was also a sign of sensitivity and...
This flood of people must have food, housing, jobs and public services. Can we provide all this without harming the future of our children and theirs? There must be a limit to our compassion, and our hearts must be made to think too.
Always proud of her race, Horne joined the civil rights movement of the late '50s and '60s. When a patron in a restaurant called her "just another nigger," she threw an ashtray at him, causing headlines around the world. After that, she spoke and marched and supported the...