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...record 11 women sought Senate seats. Five won (including an incumbent), bringing the number in that body to seven, from three. In Illinois, an obscure Cook County recorder of deeds, Carol Moseley Braun, rolled to victory in the primary over a Democratic incumbent who had supported Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, then won in the general election over an ex-Reagan official. Braun will be the first black woman Senator. California, with two seats open, chose establishment Democrat Dianne Feinstein and liberal firebrand Barbara Boxer. Once mocked as "a mom in tennis shoes," Washington state senator Patty Murray becomes...
...infamous Carol Stuart case in Boston is a good example. Police swarmed through the city three years ago stopping and searching Black men on sight after a white man reported that his pregnant wife had been shot in the head and that he was shot in the stomach by a Black man. Race--the color of a person's skin--became probable cause in that case, as well as in the one in Oneonta, N.Y. And those are only two cases that made headlines...
This is a cast so remarkable that it's hard to imagine these characters played any other way. The performances exemplify abiding commitment to character--the principals come to Boston from either the Kennedy Center or New York staging of Marvin's Room. Carol Schultz plays a deeply complex Bessie. At once, timid and furiously caustic, forgiving and petty, she views her illness with both resignation and resistance. Tim Monison as Dr. Wally is a gleefully bumbling doctor straight out of vaudeville. Nance Williamson as Lee is a perfectly caffeinated, bleached blonde graduate from cosmetology school. Mary Diveny's Ruth...
...pundits anticipated, 1992 was unmistakably The Year of the Woman. Five women--all Democrats--won election to the Senate last night: Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer in California, Patty Murray in Washington, Carol Mosely Braun in Illinois and incumbent Barbara Mikulski in Maryland...
...candidates for the U.S. Senate, 6 triumphed yesterday evening. The name of the winner in each race appears in italics. ARIZONA Claire Sargent (D) 33% John McCain (R) inc. 55% CALIFORNIA Barbara Boxer (D) 47% Bruce Herschensohn (R) 43% CALIFORNIA Dianne Feinstein (D) 54% John Seymour (R) 30% ILLINOIS Carol Moseley Braun (D) 55% Richard Williamson 45% IOWA Jean Lloyd-Jones (D) 28% Charles E. Grassley (R) inc. 72% KANSAS Gloria O'Dell (D) 32% Robert Dole (R) inc. 64% MARYLAND Barbara Mikulski (D) inc. 71% Alan Keyes (R) 29% MISSOURI Geri Rothman-Serot (D) 46% Kit Bond...