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...millions that a resale of Irises might bring him is small beer. Nonetheless, the pressure on him to liquidate it is real, especially since he has not been able to keep up with the payments and Sotheby's has had to roll over its loan. Reportedly, Irises is not even in Bond's possession but has been stashed by Sotheby's in a vault somewhere, perhaps in Switzerland. A spokesman for Dallhold Investments, Bond's private company, says Bond is not actively trying to sell the painting "despite the procession of agents who keep calling." The spokesman adds, however, that...
Staffers consider Marshall an honorary journalist and value his extralegal advice; he even catches occasional grammatical errors. Senior editor Jose M. Ferrer III recalls asking Marshall to review an early draft of a story. "He said there was no problem legally, but that it was the dumbest thing he'd ever read in TIME," says Ferrer. The story was killed. Some fielding...
...endemic in recent years, as crack has invaded ghettos across the nation, causing so much death and destruction that many blacks are convinced its spread cannot be accidental. More or less preposterous genocide theories are being spun by black nationalists like Louis Farrakhan, so-called intellectuals and prominent clergymen. Even the National Urban League published this passage in its 1989 report on the state of black America: "There is at least one concept that must be recognized if one is to see the pervasive and insidious nature of the drug problem for the African- American community. Though difficult to accept...
Fears of a diabolical conspiracy to exterminate blacks have been around for decades, but seldom have they been believed by so many people. The idea is catching on, though even the most wild-eyed conspiracy mongers concede they have no evidence to support their claims. When filmmaker Spike Lee appeared on ABC's Nightline, for example, Ted Koppel asked him to back up his charge that it is "no mistake that a majority of drugs in this country is being deposited in black and Hispanic and low-income neighborhoods." Lee could point only to a scene in the movie...
Given the flimsiness of the evidence, why do such theories flourish? One reason is that the war against drugs has been so ineffectual. Another is that U.S. history is replete with episodes that help make even fanciful theories seem plausible: just consider what happened to the Native Americans. On a much smaller scale, there is the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, during which the U.S. Public Health Service, working with black-controlled Tuskegee Institute and other agencies, deliberately withheld treatment from 400 Alabama blacks between 1932 and 1972 to study the progress of a disease whose course was already well known...