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...things were worse for them. So the voters got even with Democrats -- the party running Congress for most of their lifetimes. "Not since 1952 have Republicans controlled the United States Congress," crowed Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas. "That's when Eisenhower was elected president, the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn, and a postage stamp cost 3 cents." Expect Republicans to pursue a Reaganite agenda through the decade, with Speaker Gingrich aggressively pushing his Contract for America.TIME political writerLaurence I. Barrettsays the "election comes as close as we've come to a realigning election." The next few days will have...
...year later. While going over his parents' effects and papers he discovered, among the many things they had saved, family letters dating as far back as 1855. Eventually he put nearly everything into two boxes -- the dad museum and the mom museum -- and hauled them back to his Brooklyn apartment. These papers led him to take trips across the country to look at old houses and churches and to interview relatives. The process took years -- Frazier does not say it obsessed him, but his descriptions of his pursuit have that feel about them -- and Family is the result...
Zola B. Mashariki, a first-year law student, said that after seeing her parents battle for civil rights and her brother struggling through a Brooklyn high school, she felt indebted to use her education to help the Black community...
...Brooklyn-born Alvin Singleton, 53, also comfortably bridges the gap between European and black forms, though many of his pieces explore black themes. His orchestral composition Even Tomorrow, for example, is an homage to Thurgood Marshall, but the music itself is strictly formal in style...
Preston, the final panelist, offered a personal account of her life. She grew up in a public-housing project in Brooklyn, she said, and still lives in the same neighborhood...