"THEY SAW A HELPLESS VICTIM. HE SAW A TITLE FIGHT. The afternoon sun of late September cast long, tired shadows across the pavement of Elm Street. At the corner bus stop, a small, laminated bench offered little comfort to Arthur ""Art"" Peterson. To the passing world, Art was just another eighty-three-year-old man in a windbreaker that was slightly too big for him. He was a figure of quiet, fading dignity, his hands trembling with a perpetual, nervous rhythm. He sat there every day with his elev

A boy kept teasing and kicking a black girl's seat on a plane, but when the flight attendant stepped in to remind her, the boy's mother yelled: "He's just a kid, the problem is that black monkey..." The airline's reaction made both mother and son regret... The cabin lights dimmed as Flight 238 soared through the clouds, a peaceful hum filling the air—until the quiet broke with a sharp thud. Maya Thompson, a 27-year-old marketing analyst from Chicago, felt the back of her seat jolt again. Turning