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Some men get wiser with age, others, it seems, only drift farther and farther from the neighborhood of good sense. Jesse Jackson, who has been relatively quiet since last spring's sojourn with Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic, is back in the headlines, this time crusading on behalf of high-school hoodlums...
...This entertainment industry push reflects the larger defection of the civil rights movement from the public to the private sector. In recent years, leaders such as Jesse Jackson have peppered industry leaders with the mantra that a minority focus makes good business sense - a sentiment repeated by NBC's Wright Wednesday. A big question now facing the TV industry is whether upstarts UPN and the WB network (owned by TIME.com parent Time Warner), which built their viewership largely on minority-oriented programming, will go the way of third political parties that become marginalized once their issues are picked...
...Marcus Garvey b) W.E.B. Du Bois c) Jesse Jackson d) Martin Luther King...
...campus supervisor this year, along with 16 security cameras and a keyless entry system, DeAngelis is most proud of Columbine's efforts at prevention: the Links program that pairs upperclassmen with incoming freshmen; the emphasis on "zero tolerance" of threats and harassment; the hiring by the school district of Jackson Katz, a consultant who speaks to coaches and athletes about using their status to be role models, and the peer-counselor program, in which senior leaders can help identify students in need of support. At Columbine's opening-day rally in August, DeAngelis urged all students "who don't feel...
HONORED. THOMAS E. SPENCER, JAMES F. LYONS, TIMOTHY P. JACKSON, JEREMIAH M. LUCEY, PAUL A. BROTHERTON and JOSEPH T. MCGUIRK, fire fighters who were killed in a warehouse blaze; as heroes, by President Clinton and more than 20,000 fire fighters from around the world; in Worcester, Mass. The fire may have been accidentally sparked when a homeless couple allegedly knocked over a candle...