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On the opening night of the G.O.P. convention, Colin Powell--who doesn't need an alliterative catchphrase to make him seem compassionate or a four-day extravaganza to make him look presidential--strode onstage to the beat of his own drum. Like other speakers, he'd shown up earlier that...
And why not? Everybody was fine about everything. It was a convention in the spirit of Barney ("I love you. You love me..."). No one wanted to spoil this party. As Jerry Falwell put it, if delegates would only count their blessings--the platform, the selection of Cheney--and "keep...
But wait. Isn't killing and burying affirmative action the signature cause of the G.O.P.? Didn't this party just two weeks ago vote in Congress to sabotage Clinton's request for more teacher hirings and school construction? Forget reality. With a raucous Chaka Khan, with rappers and wrestlers and...
I'd always wondered how Republicans got so lucky as to get the general on their team. It was Democrats, after all, who pushed through legislation ending the discrimination he recalled so movingly, the kind in which he was denied meals at restaurants in the South and forced to drive...
Powell and the Republicans used each other and, perhaps, to good ends. Maybe at the next convention there will be a progress report from George W. Bush. Maybe we can have one from America's Promise. If we are still building more prisons than classrooms, I want to be there...