Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Their cowardly nighttime destruction of a few anti-apartheid shacks on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday and their ultimately successful attempts to hound music professor William Cole out of the college catapulted them to national attention, but these acts of thuggery are emblematic of their entire approach to journalism...
...occupation has produced a culture of violence, fear and racism in Israel and has forced American Jews to abandon the central Jewish values of reason and compassion in order to defend Israel's immoral acts. Martin Luther King taught that oppression enslaves the oppressor as well as the oppressed. This has never been more clear than in the case of modern Israel and the Jewish people...
Mitterrand became the first Western leader to tour the gulf since the crisis broke. He dropped in on Saudi King Fahd (who was quoted by a French spokesman as saying of economic sanctions, "All is very well, but when do we strike?") and leaders of the United Arab Emirates, and spent a night on a French destroyer on embargo-enforcement duty in the gulf. The French press predicted that Mitterrand would soon order another 7,000 ground troops to Saudi Arabia, reinforcing an initial detachment...
Administration: Susan Lynd, David Richardson, Clementina Allured, Hope Almash, Melissa August, Donald N. Collins, Joan A. Connelly, Ann V. King, Judith R. Stoler News Desks: Breena Clarke, Douglas Dale, Brian Doyle, Waits L. May III, Jacalyn McConnell, Susanna M. Schrobsdorff, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Joanne Waugh, Ann Drury Wellford, Jean R. White, Mary Wormley...
FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT, by Stephen King (Viking; 763 pages; $22.95), offers a quartet of horror novellas that show this vexing and engaging storyteller at close to his best. What has always charmed and exasperated about King's enormous run of books is a quality not exactly childlike -- James Thurber could be childlike, and so could E.B. White -- but rather teenager-like. The early teens, at that; King is stuck permanently at about 13 1/2. He bops through these stories with the mischievous imagination of a young adolescent, and also the wearying energy, sloppiness, ignorance and complete lack of subtlety...