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...prevalent interpretation is that Wilder was forced to eke out such a narrow victory only because he was a black candidate. The most common benchmark is to measure Wilder's vote against the come-from-behind 54% to 46% triumph of Democrat Donald Beyer over Edwina ("Eddy") Dalton in the battle for Lieutenant Governor. What gives piquancy to this comparison is that Beyer, a Volvo dealer and political neophyte, was running against the widow of a former Governor. "Wilder would have won a victory similar to Beyer's if he had been white," contends Sabato. But this...
...combined with personal attention, is one reason why the nation's independent book shops, once a vanishing institution, are flourishing as if they were the newest wrinkle in the retail business. They are prospering despite the fact that the 3,000 outlets of major chains like Barnes & Noble, B. Dalton and Waldenbooks account for about $2.5 billion in book merchandising, or 40% of U.S. sales...
...that mystery buffs crave. Says customer Steve Ritterman: "There's much more depth here than in a regular bookstore -- authors you can't find elsewhere." Owner Otto Penzler concedes that he does not do smash business with best sellers by the likes of Robert Parker or Robert Ludlum. "B. Dalton," he says, "has them in the window at 30% off. I can't do that...
...personal life. After Richardson began an affair with actress Jeanne Moreau and thereby precipitated the end of an already troubled marriage, Redgrave had a romance with actor Franco Nero, with whom she had a son, Carlo, now 19. More recently, she shared bed and the boards with actor Timothy Dalton, almost ten years her junior (and the latest James Bond), who was her Antony and Petruchio in the repertory triumphs...
...conspicuously progressive Law School, Stewart made waves when he supported Supreme Court nominee Judge Robert H. Bork and opposed a tenure offer to radical contracts scholar Clare Dalton...