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...increasingly popular Conservative Party has eclipsed the Herstigte (Reformed) National Party. Established in 1969, it is unabashedly racist and exclusively Afrikaner. H.N.P. Leader Marais, 62, says South Africa's unrest could be quelled if the police would only round up "layabouts" in black townships and send them off to labor colonies. "If you're proud of being a white man and you recognize the divinely ordained differentiation between the races," he says, "you're accused of being a racist." The H.N.P, which received 14.1% of the vote in the 1981 national elections, is not represented in Parliament. Even further right...
This is what we see in the Gilbert case, the fusion of our lives with theirs in one grand and pathetic cliché in which all lives look pretty much alike. We go round and round with Gilbert: Gilbert suddenly wondering if Emily might get better, if one of those white-coated geniuses will come up with a cure. Gilbert realizing that once Emily is gone, he will go too, since her way of life, however wretched, was their way of life. He is afraid for them both. In The Merchant of Venice Portia says that mercy is "twice blessed...
...next morning, as soon as the American delegation arrived at the Soviet mission for Wednesday's round of talks, Reagan once again asked his host if he would like to have a private chat. The touchy subject of human rights was on the President's mind. He did not want to belabor the issue for fear of stiffening Soviet resistance. But in the privacy of a small sitting room in the Soviet mission, he told Gorbachev that if the Soviets truly want to improve relations with the U.S., they must repair their record on individual freedom. It is morally repugnant...
...stars, however, take the program surprisingly seriously. After getting KO'd in the show's second round, former heavyweight boxing champ Evander Holyfield fumed, "They told me it was about popularity. They didn't tell me the judges would be judging like I was a professional." The twinkle-toed O'Hurley says the series elevates reality TV. "I believe we can entertain America," he says, "without having to fire people and eat worms...
...raping a woman in Indiana and spent three years in prison. He was suspended from boxing in 1997 for a year after he bit off a piece of opponent Evander Holyfield's ear. In his final fight, Tyson threw in the towel at the end of the sixth round, but not before head-butting McBride and trying to break his left arm. "I don't have the stomach for [boxing] anymore," Tyson said...