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...this academic star with a firsthand knowledge of the tribulations of being black in America is on the brink of wider fame. He has become a high- profile guest on TV talk shows and a controversial contributor to op-ed pages and magazines, with bristling articles on black anti-Semitism, gay rights and the social virtues of rap. His new book, Race Matters, has shown up on some best-seller lists on the strength of an 18-city promotion tour...
Always popular, she has risen in stature through the years and has now passed the word that she will be Owada's ally. Says Inoguchi: "The royal family are guardians of tradition, but in wider choices, they go ahead. Michiko dared to bring up her own children. Naruhito is marrying a career woman." Poet Machi Tawara, who is Owada's contemporary, notes that she "chose her own timing. We can identify with that. There's a lot of talk about the crown prince saying 'I will put all my might in protecting you my entire life.' Some of my friends...
...matter the official outcome, in most libel suits everyone loses. The aggrieved plaintiff seeking to restore his reputation winds up giving far wider, more enduring publicity to the very allegations he wants to suppress. The accused journalist may win in court -- for First Amendment reasons, the rules are tilted in favor of the press -- but is less than certain of being vindicated. Often, a story that provokes a suit is legally defensible yet morally tainted by bias, animus or procedural lapses; the trial turns into a lesson in press ethics, with the reporter as the flustered pupil...
...extra premiums. This time around, AARP is pleased that the Administration intends to insure the aged against the often ruinous costs of long-term care and spread the extra costs among the population at large. The organization is noncommittal, so far, on the idea of folding Medicare into a wider health scheme...
...specter of a Greater Serbia emanating from Belgrade now seems challenged by Croatian designs on Herzegovina. And as these shadows benight Bosnia, the threat of wider conflict looms. Last week one Belgrade official blustered, "The Croats will move against the ((Bosnian)) Serbs, Serbia will have to protect them, and we'll have global war in the Balkans again...