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Racial tactics can backfire if they are ill-timed or overly strident. Many white voters will abandon any candidate who they judge has crossed the line into blatant racism. Several top political aides, including the late Lee Atwater, counseled Bush to sign the civil rights bill passed by Congress last year, rather than make an issue of quotas so long before his next campaign. "Quotas are a legitimate issue," says one G.O.P. strategist, "but I thought it couldn't be sustained for 24 months without making a mistake. And ( when you make a mistake on this issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics Why Bigotry Still Works At Election Time | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

According to Tibi, such conflict of belief systems makes it necessary to abandon the idea that a single "New Order" can function for the entire world. he offered instead the more humble ideal of a "less disorderly world...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Tibi Blasts 'New World Order' | 11/15/1991 | See Source »

...administrative report released this week indicates that the Harvard Corporation may soon abandon whatever small gestures it had been making towards South African divestment...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: the death of divestment | 11/8/1991 | See Source »

...there's one word that drives Harvard administrators up the wall. A word that causes deans to abandon precedents that they might otherwise have respected. A word that forces administrators to act like democratic populists, rather than the admittedly benevolent dictators that they are. A word that has decision-makers, in short, running scared...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Turning Soft on ROTC | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...Nussiebah, say that the conference is less an opportunity to talk with the Israelis than a chance to rally the world against Israel. Other members of the Palestinian team declare in almost every public forum that they represent the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), knowing that Israel has promised to abandon the conference if the PLO participates...

Author: By Richard A. Primus, | Title: No Plans for Peace | 10/30/1991 | See Source »

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