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...YORK--Louisiana gubernatorial candidate David Duke faced a hostile studio audience on "Donahue" yesterday, justifying his views against interracial marriage by saying most Blacks agree with his position...
...longer have time to handle the minor calls. They're out on major crimes. To say the economy has had a devastating effect on the city is to put it mildly." Tourism and the promise of revenues from riverboat gambling offer some hope. But the specter of a Duke governorship chills many business leaders, who think tourists will stop coming and companies will leave the state if he is elected...
...risk of being struck by lightning. About 90 million players will ring up $20.6 billion in ticket sales this year. So far, 34 states have joined the lottery gold rush, raking in vital revenues for depleted coffers. Charles Clotfelter and Philip Cook, professors of public policy and economics at Duke University, challenge the games of chance as regressive, inefficient means of raising revenue and suggest they prey upon minorities and the poor. The professors also wonder whether the lotteries' get-rich-quick appeal undermines the American work ethic. Arnie Wexler, director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling in New Jersey...
...electoral votes where Bush's popular vote did not exceed 53%. If Cuomo won all those electoral votes, he would be just 10 shy of the 270 needed for victory. Two other states won by Bush could provide the difference: Louisiana, where a third-party presidential race by David Duke could deflect enough Bush support to tip 10 ; electoral votes to Cuomo, and Michigan (20 votes), where the automobile-based economy is so depressed that a coalition between labor and minorities could doom Bush's prospects...
...state's citizens -- black and white, Creole and Cajun -- also share an amazing dedication to the pursuit of good times. It is a tradition that goes back to the state's original patron, Philippe, Duke of Orleans, the notorious carouser, drinker and libertine who ruled France as regent from 1715 to 1723 and gave his name to Louisiana's major city. For the duke, writes a French historian, "pleasure was the goal and festivity the means of expression...