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Robinson also relayed Prejean's request to speak to Roemer directly. The Governor resisted, saying it was useless, but he soon relented. There is no record of that conversation. Earlier in the week, though, Prejean had explained what he desperately wanted to tell Roemer. "I'd like to have a chance at life," he said in slow, simple sentences. "To live with my mistakes. We all make mistakes in life. Some bigger than others. I'd like to give something back to society. I've changed. There's a whole difference between being...
...into deeper turmoil. Less than five months after he was sworn in as New York's first African-American mayor, Dinkins was confronting severe strains in the multiracial society he likes to call the "gorgeous mosaic." Yusuf Hawkins, Dinkins declared, had been killed by "racism in the first degree." Though "no verdict can take back the hate that was unleashed upon him or the pain that was inflicted upon all of us by the attack," said Dinkins, "it does allow us to begin to turn our attention to the process of healing. We have a long...
...Though his city was already so jittery that many openly speculated about the possibility of 1960s-style racial rioting, Dinkins had waited until May 11 to deliver what he called a "major, major" appeal for calm. Said he: "I oppose all bigotry against anyone, anywhere. I abhor it. I denounce it, and I'll do anything -- anything right and anything effective -- to prevent it." Speaking for many blacks and whites, the Rev. Calvin Butts, pastor of Harlem's % Abyssinian Baptist Church, welcomed Dinkins' appeal but noted that it "should have been delivered months...
...prospect of reregulation is sure to be Topic A as industry executives gather in Atlanta this week for their annual convention. Though the severity of Washington's legislation is still an open question, the tide may be turning for one of the hot businesses of the late 1980s. Cable companies are already suffering from investor wariness. The largest U.S. cable operator, Denver- based Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI), which draws 78% of its revenues from cable, has seen its stock price fall 29% since early October, to 14 3/4. Time Warner, which derives 25% of its revenues from cable programming...
...nurses would bring meals for me even though I asked them not to. I would leave the untouched trays in the hall. The other patients were kind enough to eat in the entry, keeping the door to the room closed...