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...people often quickly forget those things that should never be forgotten. When I clerked for him in 1983, I heard him bitterly grumble about the way that in his view, many people seemed to have forgotten completely the civil rights champions of the '30s, '40s and '50s: people like Roy Wilkins, Walter White, William Hastie and Charles Hamilton Houston. I got the impression that Justice Marshall felt that he too had been slighted in favor of those who led the protest demonstrations of the '60s, particularly Martin Luther King Jr. At last week's memorial services, however, people from...
...positive. And gradually he retreats from the gay life -- not just the sex, but the camaraderie in times of frivolity and mourning. He doesn't want to attend -- and diss -- one more AIDS memorial at which the guest stars are "the Gay Men's Chorus, Vanessa Redgrave, Siegfried and Roy." He can't bear to "see one more 28- year-old man with a cane...
Tracy, with the modesty of a freshman, is more than pleased with his performance so far, and he's quick to dismiss any comparisons between this year's freshman goalies (Tracy and Aaron Israel) and Allain Roy '92 and Chuckie Hughes '92, who led Harvard to the NCAA championship in their first years...
...split open. It did -- to reveal an avenging angel that was just one of the acts of theatrical and metaphysical daring in this brilliant if roughhewn jumble of politics, fantasy and farce. The full Angels debuted memorably at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, starring Ron Leibman as Republican dealmaker Roy Cohn...
...separatist, "but we're a little tired of that battle when jobs are really what matter." Quebec's 55.4% rejection of the constitutional agreement produced quite the opposite of political ferment. "After all these years of debates, referenda and what have you, what are we left with?" asks Louise Roy, a senior vice president of the Laurentian financial group in Montreal. "A dead...