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...that the worst domestic crises that afflict America -- unemployment, debt, blighted inner cities, drugs, fatherless children, AIDS -- are especially wounding to black citizens. Jackson speaks for these victims but not exclusively for them. Blacks and whites must participate in the solution to problems they both created. The trick, as Bert Lance puts in it in Southern terms, is to "combine a minority of the majority vote with a majority of the minority vote" -- as happened in the 1986 election of Southern Democratic Senators, following on Jackson's campaign and registration efforts of 1984. Those elections, giving the Democrats control...
...executive to fund his research project, arguing that its results will eventually help the company; and once this relationship is established, the company then hires graduate students and even professors to conduct research in its labs. A $10 million research grant from Monsanto to Harvard Medical School Professor Bert Vallee was consummated in this way--although the University played an important role in negotiating and overseeing the contract...
...dropped amid reports of inside deals, right down to lowly campaign workers who are openly bending the regulations on fund limits. National politics is beset by special interests and schemers who have their own distant agendas and smell position or profits down the corridors of power. How many Bert Lances and Ed Meeses, with their singular financial styles, are circulating now, eager to wield federal authority next year? What often goes on in the political trenches is not acceptable in the calmer climates of government...
...week issued a barrage of condemnations. Reform Rabbi Alexander Schindler, President of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, sent a scathing letter to Israeli President Chaim Herzog, calling the beatings an "offense to the Jewish spirit" that "violates every principle of human decency and betrays the Zionist dream." Declared Bert Gold, executive vice president of the American Jewish Committee: "Using brute force evokes other times and places when it was used against us." Said Balfour Brickner, senior rabbi of Manhattan's Stephen Wise Free Synagogue: "When the Israelis become like their enemy, they are no different from their enemy...
...days of the young are numbered, usually with boring arithmetic drills. Bert Kitchen enlivens those routines by granting the digits wit and style. From one to ten, and then in larger leaps, Animal Numbers (Dial; $11.95) presents fauna with their offspring: a kangaroo and one joey, for example; a swan and two cygnets; a setter and ten puppies. A visit to this overflowing menagerie adds up to swift and painless math (and biology) lessons...