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Having Jackson's picture on the front page paired with the headline "Law Dean Clark Rejects Jackson Offer to Mediate," sends a negative message to Crimson readers. Never mind the speech in which he raised pertinent questions about the state of this country--The Crimson left that for page 10! First, we have to know all about his "rejection." We are not denying the importance of Clark's decision to decline Jackson's offer, because that in itself is significant. What we do criticize is the relative insignificance that Jackson's speech was left with, as if it were only...
...contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with, or even understand: we are too small and too afraid." Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging on the Middle Ages. And now, you see, having dazzled me, won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only job is to keep me awake. When I sleep I give...
Even for a billionaire, the $600 million penalty that junk-bond king Michael Milken has agreed to pay is a breathtaking sum. Milken will be forfeiting more money than any other felon in history. By another measure, the penalty is even larger than Union Carbide's $470 million settlement offer for the Bhopal disaster. Yet Milken's fortune, which has been estimated at $1.2 billion, is by no means wiped out. The frugal financier, who invested his monumental income instead of spending it, possesses an intricate web of assets that have been well sheltered from taxes and prying eyes...
Though the newborn denomination is mostly middle class, says Stallings, it wants to offer "spiritual and cultural liberation" to poorer blacks as well. Says he: "We teach them that they can free themselves through their unique history and culture." Unfortunately, the pressing need for such cultural affirmation among the nation's 2 million black Catholics has become obscured, both by Stallings' schism and by the moral accusations against...
...serves as the country's platform for outrageous minority views. With only 1% of the vote -- just 22,000 ballots in 1988 -- needed to win a seat, the 120-member Knesset must give house room to a stunning variety of opinions in an exceptionally opinionated nation. Its 15 parties offer something for everyone: ultra- Orthodox rabbis who disdain Israeli statehood, Zionist leftists and Arab communists who support Palestinian statehood, and right-wing extremists who want to expel the Palestinians...