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...wall at the back of the barn," says Bourne, who comes from the sweet-sounding town of Netherhill. "It can be a simple or a complicated game, eh?" Yes, whichever you want it to be. "Well, I think most Canadians want it to be simple. Cheer the good plays, boo the bad. Worry about who wins later...
...Boo, Rizzo!" cried a woman in the crowd. "We don't want you as mayor." It was one of the few even slightly rude moments in a remarkably even-tempered, almost genteel campaign. It was also prophetic. Last week, in his quest to be Philadelphia's first black mayor, W. Wilson Goode reaped 97% of the city's black vote and took the primary by a margin of 7%. With a 65.6% turnout, the primary, like Chicago's bitter mayoral bout last month, evidenced emerging black power at municipal polls...
...immensely impressed by the war in the Falklands." He suggests that countries stuck in irreconcilable disputes "rent the Falklands and fight their battles there." Mailer is asked about homosexuality, another subject on which he has been illiberally truculent: "My feeling is, and you're all going to boo at this, homosexuals want to become heterosexual... If you're homosexual, you might have to ask yourself what God thinks of you." Some of the students look pained or unhappy, but no one boos...
...disingenuous rationale for voting against a black. In a satirical fantasy, Tribune Columnist Bill Granger describes Washington and Epton waking up one day with their skin colors miraculously switched: those in front of St. Pascal Church who had attacked Washington as a "crook" quickly reverse field and boo the now black Republican as a "Nixon lover...