Word: benjamin
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News Editor for This Issue: Julie L. Belcove '89 Night Editors: Julie L. Belcove '89 Martha A. Bridegam '89 Noam S. Cohen '89 Mark M. Colodny '89 Benjamin R. Miller '89 A. Louise Oliver '90 Feature Editor: Brooke A. Masters '89 Editorial Editor: John C. Yoo '89 Sports Editor: Colin F. Boyle '90 Photo Editor: Gavin R. Villareal '90 Copy Editor: Matthew M. Hoffman...
...Karla: Benjamin! What courage! ((Benjamin, 1, has climbed up the wooden slide for the first time.)) That's like climbing Mount Everest! That's how you conquer the world, that's right! That's how you do it! ((Bertha takes a photograph of Benjamin...
Karla: He has to get down by himself. Marie, show him the steps. ((Benjamin falls off the slide and screams...
Back in 1981, the executive director of the NAACP, Benjamin Hooks, warned Blacks to brace themselves for hard times similar to those faced during Reconstruction, saying that Reagan "could end up putting Black folks in a worse position than if a racist were in the White House." This has turned out to be true, but the damage shouldn't be irrevocable. The reversal of Reagan's veto indicates that his wholesale neglect of minority concerns is no longer acceptable to this country...
...Surveys have found that 15% to 20% of the American electorate admit that, simply because he was black, they would not vote for a black presidential candidate. The glass ceiling that keeps blacks and other minorities from getting beyond statewide office is double-glazed at the presidential level. Says Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P., of Jackson's limits: "It's primarily race. The majority of people make no bones about...