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Wherever he dug up the feelings -- his decades of defeat surely helped -- Hawthorne unforgettably evokes a man who is at once ruler and soiled dependent, blending dignity and hysteria, imperiousness and despair. He makes one hungry to see him all-out as Learand grateful that he finds Shakespearean depths in lesser parts because he finds them in himself...
...First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles. The congregation would be sprayed with bullets, and the pastor, (the Rev.) Cecil Murray, would be murdered. Across the U.S., other blacks were potential targets -- Rodney King, (the Rev.) Al Sharpton, the rap group Public Enemy, perhaps even a baseball player. An all-out race war would be triggered, a final, bloody Ragnarok of the races...
This line of argument is particularly sinister, because it seems legitimate--it's not a blatant smear, or an all-out attempt at character assassination. Rather, it's a criticism of the most substantive realm of the politician, how he or she votes...
...comic opera. No longer. Rather than bowing grudgingly to the inevitable, many Afrikaners have grown more desperate. The militants are threatening to employ the same revolutionary tactics once practiced by black liberation groups: civil disobedience and guerrilla warfare. In the worst-case scenario, the result could be an all-out race conflict. "If they want war, let them start war," retorted a black caller to the Citizen, a conservative Johannesburg newspaper. "We are longing...
...Call it anarchy. Call it gridlock. Call it another lesson in Governing 101 for Bill Clinton, now in the fifth month of his increasingly troubled presidency. Whatever it's called, the skirmishing between Clinton and Congress over the President's proposed deficit-reduction and tax plan threatened to erupt into all-out war last week as Republicans and several Democrats in both the House and Senate publicly attacked the proposal. If the Clinton package still has a fair chance of eventually passing in one form or another, that is less a tribute to the White House's political acumen than...