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...unconscionable that 35,000 people die every day of hunger while billions of dollars are thrown away on weapons," Kennedy said while standing in front of a larger-than life mural of King, another winner of the Nobel Peace Prize...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, | Title: Kennedy Urges Peace | 4/15/1997 | See Source »

Currier House residents then helped clean up the courtyard, gathering up the documents the firefighters had thrown in the courtyard...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, George T. Hill, and Jal D. Mehta, S | Title: Currier Closet Fire Forces Late Evacuation | 4/12/1997 | See Source »

...comprised of performing dogs "rescued from shelters around the world." But things get a little strange when one dog appears to spray urine all over a section of the audience, which is extremely close to the ring as per the "intimate" set-up. Later, that same dog is thrown out into the audience, literally, and then thrown back to the freaky ring-leader, who continually rubs the dogs' bellies...

Author: By Whitney K. Bryant, | Title: A Circus Maximus for All Ages | 4/10/1997 | See Source »

...avenues minority residents can walk on, which parks their children may play in and what time they must be off the streets. The rules are enforced subtly--steely glares, selective ticketing of cars, storekeepers who follow shoppers from aisle to aisle--and in more brutal fashion: racial epithets, trash thrown on lawns, windows shattered and beatings of the sort administered to Lenard Clark. "Here the No. 1 issue is color," says Curly Cohen, director of the Bridgeport Volunteer Center. "If you don't learn the rules fast, you could be dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHICAGO'S LAST HOPE | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...affirmed, it would totally change the journalistic and legal landscape," First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams told the Journal. Dow Jones has $45 million in libel coverage for this case. Because libel law puts a heavy burden of proof on the accuser, most awards are reduced or thrown out on appeal, and the Journal is hoping that pattern holds. "We were chronicling the difficulties of this company; we did not cause them," managing editor Paul Steiger said in a statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BIZ WATCH: Mar 31, 1997 | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

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