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From these painful beginnings was forged a classic example of what author Colin Wilson called "the outsider," which Frady describes as a "prodigally gifted but displaced loner who undertakes to compensate for his alienation from the world around him by resorting to extraordinary, and often tragic, exertions to reinvent himself in heroic proportions." In Jackson's case that translated into a total identification with the inspiring struggle of the civil rights movement. Unfortunately for him, his quest has played out in the morally murky aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination, which robbed the movement--and the nation...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Maybe it's time to give up on Colin Powell. Just to make it clear to those who missed his drift last fall, the presumptive "dream candidate" and declared Republican has now ruled out campaigning for any GOP presidential candidate in 1996. Dole has publicly talked of looking forward to taking Powell along on the stump, but he is apparently out of luck. "I am practicing my own politics privately," Powell told AP Network News on Monday. The general added that he did not feel comfortable telling people how to vote. He did not rule out participating...
Because influence is not the same as power (see page 80), most of official Washington is not on this list. Nor is this a list of heroes. Colin Powell, a legitimate hero, has been influential in the past and has the potential to be so again, but for now he's taking time off. Meanwhile, Louis Farrakhan, who to most people is no hero, is busily influencing people. It is also not a list celebrating celebrity. Dennis Rodman is famous, but we'll have to wait for a lot more killer-tomato dye jobs to show up in the N.B.A...
...third-party politics, many local centurions originally attracted to Perot have grown skeptical that he's a suitable candidate. Unfortunately for Lamm, however, many of them now agree with Nicholas Sabatine of Pennsylvania, who as head of the National Patriot Party tried to woo several alternatives to Perot, including Colin Powell and Senator Bill Bradley. "I don't see anyone both willing and viable other than Perot," he concluded after a year...
Protests begin over the choice of Colin L. Powell as Commencement speaker because of his stance on gays in the military...