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The Navy's claim that Gunner's Mate Clayton Hartwig deliberately ignited the explosion that killed 47 sailors aboard the battleship U.S.S. Iowa last April | has failed to convince many critics. New doubts have been raised now that an insurance company has paid off on the double-indemnity policy Hartwig...
Wilder's wafer-thin win should have been all the more satisfying, for it underlines the extent of the racial barriers that he has surmounted. But in the topsy-turvy world of political analysis, this Virginia victory was measured against the unrealistically optimistic expectations raised by the pre-election surveys...
Wilder, himself a product of segregated education and law school at Howard University, will be the embodiment of state government for the next four years. When he is inaugurated in January, he will command more day-to-day administrative power than any other elected black official in the nation's...
In Richmond the hurrahs over Wilder's election have been tempered by an almost equal amount of hand wringing over his meager margin. But no one should have expected Wilder's candidacy to usher in the millennium of a color-blind electorate. Coleman has contributed to this yes-but mood...
But the prevalent interpretation is that Wilder was forced to eke out such a narrow victory only because he was a black candidate. The most common benchmark is to measure Wilder's vote against the come-from-behind 54% to 46% triumph of Democrat Donald Beyer over Edwina ("Eddy") Dalton...