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By Any Means Necessary?

Intolerance Is Fomenting on America's College Campuses

JUNE 01, 1994 by ROBERT ZIMMERMAN

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Our Own Mad Clockwork

Why Did Slavery Flourish in Seventeenth Century Virginia?

MARCH 01, 1994 by ROBERT ZIMMERMAN

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A Level Playing Field

New York's Health Insurance Law Encourages Laziness, Foolishness, and Failure

JANUARY 01, 1994 by ROBERT ZIMMERMAN

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Three's a Crowd

AUGUST 01, 1992 by ROBERT ZIMMERMAN

For our society to function in a healthy manner, we must abandon this notion that a third party (i.e., the government) can resolve our differences.

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Saying Yes

JUNE 01, 1992 by ROBERT ZIMMERMAN

It is the winter of 1992 in New York City, and everyone is talking economic doom and gloom. Macy's has just declared bankruptcy, Citicorp has lost almost a billion and a half dollars in the last six months, local unemployment has topped 10 percent, and shuttered storefronts dot local shopping districts.Into the midst of this dismal situation comes yours truly, trying to find (of all things) a location for a film shoot. I am representing Weekend at Bernie's II, a Hollywood feature film with a week's shooting in middle May. One of the locations I am searching for is a high-level corporate boardroom with a spectacular view of the New York skyline.

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Street Performers and the Social Contract

MAY 01, 1992 by ROBERT ZIMMERMAN

Albert Owens is a rugged-faced black man with a wonderful sense of humor As he says, "I have an emotional need to make people laugh." For 10 years he has performed stand-up comedy every day on the streets of New York City. In less than 15 minutes he can gather over a hundred laughing people, and hold them to watch his entire act. No one is required to pay admission, yet when he passes the hat near the end of his performance he invariably collects between 50 to several hundred dollars. People give gladly.

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New York's War Against the Vans

APRIL 01, 1992 by ROBERT ZIMMERMAN

In 1981, New York City had a transit strike. Only the Staten Island Ferry was running. A1 Manti, a fireman living in Brooklyn, decided to help some of his local friends by driving them to the ferry so they could get to work in lower Manhattan. "We did it for fun," says Manti. It worked so well that he decided, once the strike ended, to buy a 15-passenger van and go into business. He contacted city and state agencies, filled out the appropriate forms, and received a license to provide transportation from Brooklyn to Manhattan.