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When Halle Berry and Denzel Washington won Oscars in this year's much discussed Black Hollywood moment, they paid their respects to Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier, not to Pam Grier and Richard Roundtree. In the remembrances of African-American cinema past that followed, there wasn't much tribute to Foxy Brown, Superfly or Hell Up in Harlem. Blaxploitation - the genre of small-budget, big-action and bigger-Afro movies that flourished in the early to mid-'70s - has been something of an embarrassment to Hollywood and the black intelligentsia alike. (The term black exploitation was popularized by mainline African...
...horrifying human rights abuses in East Timor. While the needs of American policy may have changed, Indonesia's military has not. "The fear among pro-reform elements is that the money could provide an opening for the security forces to go back to the bad old days," warns Sidney Jones, Indonesia Project director of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group. Pakistan's dictator Pervez Musharraf found himself similarly in the U.S.' good graces after Sept. 11. His regime has benefited from hundreds of millions of dollars in debt relief, tens of millions more in aid and military assistance from Washington...
...that's what was heard until recently from people on the streets?but not what investigators, journalists and activists saw in East Timor, and have described in accounts available to anyone who cares to look. "The indictments are so appalling that they will serve no useful purpose," says Sidney Jones of the International Crisis Group...
...since he announced in February his plans to step down from the deanship, was on his way to New York City Wednesday for a “final farewell” being thrown for him by the New York Major Gifts Committee—chaired by another Harvard benefactor, Sidney R. Knafel ’52, whose donation is helping to fund the planned Center for Government and International Studies...
CONVICTED. SIDNEY DORSEY, 62, ex-sheriff of DeKalb County, Ga.; of masterminding the December 2000 murder of his elected successor, Derwin Brown; in Albany, Ga. Prosecutors said the defeated Dorsey, who was also charged with racketeering, wanted to be reinstated and thus hired hit men to gun down Brown, who had promised to clean up department corruption (see TIME, Feb. 5, 2001). Dorsey faces a mandatory life sentence...