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...think that all the classes should get better seating than alumni," said Cabot House resident John F. Alderman '93. "I didn't sit with my class, and my seats were still better...
...They see that he has been less than intimate with the grand, grizzled heads of the civil rights Establishment. In fact, his closest ties are with a younger, and no less impassioned, generation of black leaders, such as California Congresswoman Maxine Waters; Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Emanuel Cleaver; Chicago alderman Bobby Rush; and New York City Deputy Mayor Bill Lynch Jr. It seems to have dawned on Clinton, as it has dawned on few white politicians, that 30 million African Americans do not speak with a single voice. Now all this makes an older generation of civil rights leaders uncomfortable...
Clinton's greatest strength in Chicago is among blacks. "He talks to our concerns," says Alderman Bobby Rush. "Tsongas is too detached, too ivory tower." What ethnic whites see as weakness is viewed as almost charming by some blacks. "Life is life," says Charliemae Towbridge, who heads the Chicago police department's civilian workers' union. "There isn't any one of us who can't relate to Clinton's eye for the ladies if he's being honest with himself. That's a fact...
...often who recruits you that determines where you go," says Sandy Thomas, the president of the Chicago Social Club, a business that organizes sporting and social events for 6,500 dues-paying members. Thomas lives in the 43rd Ward, a haven for upwardly mobile whites, whose popular alderman, Edwin Eisendrath, is a Clinton man. "Edwin asked me to sign a fund-raising letter for Clinton," says Thomas, "so of course I did." But Thomas will vote for Tsongas. As a former schoolteacher, Thomas should be attracted by Clinton's education reforms in Arkansas. But she isn't, and her inability...
Anne J. Bourque, ward three's alderman and state representative, spoke at the election day rallies in support of Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey. She said she has campaigned on the same street corner several times in the past few years...