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...first some New Yorkers feared terrorism or a random killer. But by Wednesday evening, when police arrested Michael Stevens, 53, and Earl Figley, 56, the grudge began to seem very specific. Stevens' girlfriend is a woman named Brenda Lazore Chevere. The injured William Lazore is her uncle; the dead included her mother, her stepfather and her sister -- all apparently victims of a man they seem to have ostracized...
...years ago, that internecine friction was challenged by Gloria Steinem in Revolution from Within and especially by Susan Faludi in Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. You might call Naomi Wolf, whose Fire with Fire (Random House; $21) has just been published, a colonist of the territory that Steinem and Faludi staked out. Their message was that women were being fed cynical lampoons of feminists and not-so-subtle suggestions that liberation was responsible for any feelings they had of frustration or of "superwoman" tension. Steinem in particular countered such propaganda by preaching self-esteem...
...city has tried one security measure after another. A new $106 million, 1,200-prisoner-capacity county jail, opened late last year, is already overflowing. Metal detectors were installed in the sheriff's department in October, and the Milwaukee public-school system, with 100,000 students, started random weapons searches this fall at the middle and high schools. "I have in front of me a list of all my kids who have died between 12/92 and 12/ 93," says superintendent Howard Fuller. "On that list are 15 kids under...
...that matter, there's nothing in the essence of Dickens' story to preclude glimpses of fast-food workers and airline pilots, or riffs of rap and gospel music, and it's reasonable enough to have an urban American Tiny Tim (T.T. to his kin) be a victim of a random shooting instead of a mysterious wasting disease. If the ghost of Christmas present dresses like Santa and quotes Diet Pepsi commercials, that doesn't keep him from making the eternal case for charity. If the ghost of Christmas past summons up not only old Fezziwig but also Tarzan and Little...
According to the student survey based on a random sampling of more than 1,600 undergraduates, 26 percent of the students who responded said that they would attend a Blind Melon concert...