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...package of hate mail, anti-Jewish and anti-black material. We knew it was from Larry Trapp, but we couldn't prove it. We were pretty frightened. It went on that way for a while, and then I talked with my wife Julie, and I said I had to confront this. The only thing I hoped to accomplish was to let him know that I wasn't afraid of him. I was pretty angry, but I never expressed any anger on the telephone...
...there is a problem with Outerbridge Reach, it is not that some of its conclusions appear improbable but that its structure seems a tad too deterministic. Stone, at his highest pitch, is a poet of doom; his characters must confront nothing less than the implacable pattern that fate has handed them. When they think they are most in control, changing the direction of their lives, they are actually exposing themselves to ruin. To be safe is contemptible, to dare disastrous. That Stone makes exciting fiction out of this depressing scenario is the hallmark of his mastery...
...also symbolizes the dangers of overpromising. Economic nationalism is deeply embedded in the fabric of Japanese culture, and it may be naive to believe that the long-standing trade imbalance can be wiped off the books in a single presidential term. No Democrat -- or Bush either -- seems prepared to confront the ultimate what-if question: What if America's trade deficit with Japan is a permanent condition and cannot be eliminated through pressure to open up Japanese markets or short-term investments in domestic competitiveness? The Democrats -- aside from Brown, who rarely mentions Japan in his different- drummer campaign...
...Arledge heard their decision to hold off. Yet hours later, the network devoted that night's episode of Nightline to dishing the unchecked dirt from the Star, in the guise of debating the propriety of doing so. The rationale, as explained by anchor Ted Koppel: Clinton himself planned to confront the issue publicly, agreeing to do Nightline that evening before a travel snafu forced him to cancel his trip to Washington. "It was no longer simply a 'Supermarket tabloid has charged . . .' " said Koppel. "The Clinton campaign had already decided, and we knew that they had decided to address the issue...
Sobered by the news of Goodman's disappearance, Ganz continued on to Mississippi where he worked to send protest delegates to the national Democratic convention. There they would confront the racist Mississippi Democratic Caucus...