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...election victory over Brown was a stunning display of a Wilson forte: big-bucks, no-frills, keep-it-simple campaigning. His campaign team of longtime loyalists is led by strategist George Gorton, a onetime youth activist for Nixon with a talent for framing issues and a fondness for Eastern spirituality. The machine is so well oiled that its media desk in Sacramento was able to monitor and systematically infiltrate call-in talk shows. "I have absolute respect for the Wilson team," groans Democratic strategist Darry Sragow. "I've lost to them three times...
...Regent University can fall far outside the mainstream. The heavily footnoted articles in the Regent University Law Review cite Scripture as well as legal precedent. And one of them, at least, crossed the line between legal and criminal opinion. In 1994 ACLJ lawyer Michael Hirsh, who was representing antiabortion activist Paul Hill in an abortion-protest case, submitted an article to the review that justified killing abortion doctors. The piece was approved and scheduled for publication--until the day Hill murdered two people outside a Pensacola, Florida, abortion clinic; then the article was yanked, and Hirsh was fired several months...
Three days after she was elected chairwoman of the N.A.A.C.P., Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, rushed home from Washington to be with her critically ill husband Walter Williams, a retired longshoreman. He died the next day of cancer...
...Having made that as a commitment, I decided I would give some portion of my life on a continuing basis to exercising social responsibility," the professor says of his protest. He seems to have followed through with this resolution. In conversation, Mendelsohn comes across more like a political activist with an interest in the natural sciences than the other way around...
...being appointed to the federal bench by Reagan in 1986, Sporkin has made himself a name as a man with little patience for malfeasance by Big Business. "He's a rare judge who is sympathetic to the way the law intersects with consumer interests and investor interests," says consumer activist Ralph Nader. It was Sporkin at his most sulfurous who dismissed the 1990 suit by which Charles Keating tried to regain control of Lincoln Savings & Loan, whose collapse cost taxpayers $2 billion. Bluntly accusing Keating of "looting" Lincoln funds, Sporkin also pointed the finger at the lawyers and accountants...