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...conditions and customs of the race he strove to transform. To begin with, he was a Northerner and nearly as white as he was black. There were Dutch and French as well as West African branches on his family tree. He was a child prodigy who became an editor, activist and writer. His best-known book, The Souls of Black Folk (1903), gave new dimension to understanding racism through the concept of double consciousness, which he described as "this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape...
...more industrial invasion, if not environmental damage. Montana would get a small royalty payment, but Wyoming, which would absorb most of the social impact, would get nothing. There is no large population of unemployed miners in the area, which is getting along fairly well from tourism. Peter Aengst, an activist for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, repeats a familiar complaint: "Crown Butte gets the mine, and Yellowstone gets the shaft...
Traditionally, the State Department assigned such tasks to strong Under Secretaries, but Christopher does not have them. Peter Tarnoff, the Under Secretary for Political Affairs, fell under a dark cloud last May when he suggested the U.S. was too poor to support an activist policy abroad. More recently, according to two well-placed officials, Clinton suggested that Christopher consider firing him, out of concern that he was not properly overseeing the State Department's regional bureaus. But the Secretary, an old and close friend of Tarnoff's, resisted, according to the sources, arguing that he should be reassessed after...
Busch-Reisinger Museum. Through Dec. 12. "The Sketchbooks of George Grosz." Exploring the many sides of the former dada activist through more than 80 of his previously unexhibited sketchbooks...
Reality hit within hours. The race that would make the case for activist government was lost. Carville and Begala were almost too depressed to put their spin on things. "I couldn't look Florio in the eye last night," Carville began. "But," he added, pitching forward cheerfully, "today's the first time in a while that I read the business section before the front page." Sure enough, the "real stuff," as Carville called it, was encouraging: housing starts, manufacturing, productivity and construction spending were all up. Perhaps the man who had won the White House by promising to focus...