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...city took its own action. The New York Daily News headline for that rebuff is famous: FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD. New York did not drop dead. Instead it got mad, went to work and devised its own rescue, which a few weeks ago prompted Mayor Ed Koch to crow about New York's financial condition: "We are healthier than any other city in the country." Few New Yorkers seemed to remember that one of the reasons for the rebound was Jerry Ford's firm no. Such are the rewards of refusal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Importance of Saying No | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...illusions persist. So at the School of Education, divestment activists wanted to bring apartheid here, with a Jim Crow Commencement scheme. Thinking that the best way to fight racism is to act it out, some produced a leaflet which zealougly suggests: How about separate water fountains, a white seating section and a Black one at Commencement...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Anti-Apartheid Victory | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...Lowell House blockade makes liberal demonstrations like the Jim Crow Commencement look all the more like the insanity it is. Students learned firsthand that the University administration and its cops are not our friends. As thousands of students at Cornell, Columbia, UC Berkeley, University of Colorado, UMass Amherst, Lufts and the University of Iowa have learned, taking a stand against racism in South Africa and racist terror at home means attacks from the ruling class and their cops. At UC Berkeley over a month ago, Guillermo Bermudez, a Hispanic student and a member of the SYL, helped initiate a united...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Anti-Apartheid Victory | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

Unknown to the public, these liberals are presently eating crow. Chances are they may soon be eating vast amounts of crow. The Star Wars idea, it seems, far from being lunatic, gives every indication of being the most brilliant negotiating ploy of the decade. And, even failing that, it could conceivably become a device to save tens of millions of American lives. It all depends how Reagan decides to proceed...

Author: By Per H. Jebsen, | Title: Eat Crow, Yuppies | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

Palin's Gilbert is the perfect dramatic foil for her. In contrast with her vivacious cunning, he can merely smile sadly and wrinkle the crow's feet around his eyes as the world shits on him. His affection for Betty even suggests that he likes playing the schlomozzle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Functional Privates | 3/22/1985 | See Source »

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