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Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman. This fiction revolves around a fact: the May 1985 fire bombing (ordered by a black mayor) of a Philadelphia house occupied by a black organization called Move. But that is only the starting point for a prolonged, dramatic monologue on racism in the U.S. and the possibility that the birth of the nation was accompanied by a genetic disorder...
...Hartford who works with his city's homeless, thought Steve the Tramp's grotesque villainy was a cruel attack on his unfortunate clients. Particularly incensed by the lurid resume that adorned Steve the Tramp's packaging, Rose launched a campaign to stamp out the tramp. He got his point across to Disney and Playmates, which have decided to drop the terrifying toy. But the move comes too late to recall the product from retailers' shelves before Christmas...
Like the bugged conversations, the tax-evasion charges point to a startling degree of carelessness on Gotti's part. The former head of the FBI's organized-crime office in New York, Jules Bonavolonta, had made it no secret that he considered Gotti "the No. 1 target of law enforcement." So how could the don, who officially claims to be a salesman of plumbing supplies, have neglected to file tax returns for the past five years, as the government claims...
Scientists will point out that almost every one of the program's premises is subject to debate, from its assumption that life must be based on carbon (rather than, say, silicon) to its noticeable bias against nuclear energy. The program also assumes that technology always advances and that intelligence always confers an evolutionary advantage. "We may be flattering ourselves," says the program's designer, Will Wright...
What's the point of being neutral if there are no longer two sides? That's what Sweden's Parliament asked itself last week when it voted 287 to 40 to apply for membership in the European Community, departing from a national tradition of sitting on the geopolitical fence. "The collapse of the communist dictatorships in Eastern Europe has changed the military map," says Lotta Forsman, an E.C. expert at the Foreign Ministry, "and consequently the basis for Sweden's neutrality...