Word: eye
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AMERICA'S long overdue show-down over the future of civil rights may come within weeks as Congress prepares to send President Bush a flawed and cynical bill whose chief connection to civil rights lies in its eye-catching (and vote-winning) title. Bush should pronounce that legislation dead on arrival and use the opportunity to launch a new civil rights agenda that emphasizes empowerment--not handouts...
...Cabot House resident strolling down Walker Street, where the van was parked, on Sunday morning said he believed he saw a person in the van minutes before the fire erupted. "I saw a white flash out of the corner of my eye...I thought I saw a person [in the van]," said Jeremy S. Ditelberg...
...Harvard Business Review, Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca argues, "If an American CIA agent quit one day and went to work for a foreign intelligence service the next, we'd call it treason. But when American trade officials . . . defect in droves to the Japanese, we don't even bat an eye...
Jackson obviously sees the show as a way of staying in the public eye while contemplating his next political move. For a model, he need look no further than former President Ronald Reagan, who kept hope alive during the interregnum between the California governorship and the White House by doing radio commentary. Jackson's advisers hope the show will present a "cooler" Jesse Jackson than the image viewers usually get. "Most people only know Jesse from a 20-to-30-second snippet of a speech, where he's near a crescendo," says longtime aide Frank Watkins. "In TV terms...
...that combine Shakespeare's Tempest and Third World politics: "Today's lesson is this immortal play about colonialism, imperialism, recidivism, the royal f over of weak by strong, colored by white, many by few, or, if you will, the birth of the nation's blues seen through the fish-eye lens of a fee fi foe englishmon...