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Back in 1988, when he was just another guy getting off a subway train in Harlem, Samuel Jackson caught his foot in the door and was dragged 300 ft. along the platform. He sued, and has finally been awarded $540,000. To paraphrase Jackson's character in Pulp Fiction, "You...
The Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services investigated but took no action. "It is a difficult form of abuse to prove," says hrs spokeswoman Michelle Lagos. "It's not like you have broken bones or bruises." The authorities may have been dissuaded by Jennifer's celebrity, as well as...
If resegregation is indeed the wave of the future, then the future can be glimpsed in Norfolk, Virginia. Norfolk won federal court approval of a return to neighborhood schools back in 1986, for the stated purpose of increasing parental involvement and arresting white flight. Black parents had sued to block...
Now the relentless tides of demographic change in most large American cities have eroded the gains made during the school-desegregation era. In 1972--the year blacks sued to desegregate Boston's schools--some 90,000 students were enrolled in the public system, 54,000 of them white. As of...
Schliemann's brazenness didn't stop there. His original dig was done without a permit from the Ottoman (now Turkish) government, and when he later got permission, it was with the understanding that he would split what he found with the Turks. But he smuggled many objects out of the...