Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...feared a repeat of the media circus that surrounded the celebrated Stuart murder case, when police scoured the city for a black assailant only to learn that the real killer was the victim's white husband. Some community leaders insisted that if Harbour had been white and middle class instead of a poor black crack addict, the case would have been widely publicized. What they failed to note was that this crime was probably not about race but about gender. Before their rampage, the suspects, who were black and Hispanic, allegedly declared that they planned to "go rob females...
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE. Before there was the astringent Jules Feiffer film about the war between men and women, there was his play -- unproduced in New York until this off-Broadway staging. Instead of Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Candice Bergen and Ann-Margret, brat packers Judd Nelson, Jon Cryer and Justine Bateman are the stars...
...only charming plagiarism belongs to the young. Schoolchildren shovel information out of an encyclopedia. Gradually they complicate the burglary, taking from two or three reference books instead of one. The mind (still on the wrong side of the law) then deviously begins to intermingle passages, reshuffle sentences, disguise raw chunks from the Britannica, find synonyms, reshape information until it becomes something like the student's own. A writer, as Saul Bellow has said, "is a reader moved to emulation." Knowledge transforms theft. An autonomous mind emerges from the sloughed skin of the plagiarist...
...everyone expected a Jesuit revolt," remarks the Rev. John Long, rector of the Jesuits' Russian-studies institute in Rome. When this did not occur, says Long, "the Pope was surprised, and the Vatican Curia was shocked." On the other hand, the Jesuits did not much change their activism but instead adopted a more circumspect profile...
...enveloped the Great Colombian Drug War. To fend off the government's relentless assault on his empire, Medellin cartel boss Pablo Escobar Gaviria seems to have forsaken bombs and gun battles in the streets, which have killed more than 1,000 people in the past 15 months, and opted instead for high-profile kidnappings and negotiations. Since August, Escobar's mob has been holding seven journalists -- including Hoy X Hoy magazine editor Diana Turbay, the daughter of a former President -- and threatening to kill them unless a peace deal can be worked out. In the past year authorities have gunned...