'Mariah' Climbs the Chart By Dennis Hunt, \o7 Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press\f7
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Dear Leo: Give Up, the War Is Over By \o7 Tom Bates\f7, \o7 Bates, who received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin in 1972, is working on a book about the Army Math bombing. \f7
CALIFORNIA COMMENTARY : A Quarter-Century of Slipping Backward By Melvin L. Oliver and James H. Johnson Jr. and Walter C. Farrell Jr., \o7 Melvin L. Oliver is an associate professor of sociology and associate director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Urban Poverty at UCLA. Walter C. Farrell Jr. is national research affiliate in the UCLA center and a professor of educational policy at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. James H. Johnson Jr. is a professor of geography and director of the UCLA center. and \f7