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...have more, much more. We need a government agency to lend assistance to those in the most dire need, a sort of public defender in the lobbying arena. If politicians can turn their backs on the power brokers for a little while, they can save these groups before they fade out of existence...
Kemp is no longer at the HUD helm, which means his empowerment policies might fade. But his presidential ambitions ensure that empowerment politics will remain visible. If Kemp is successful, his "Empowerment" umbrella--the group, its literature, its offshoot satellite series, its adjunct businesses and associated candidates--may achieve a shift in political thought, a reemphasis on the community as the center of political activity. Religious Right groups like Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition have been using the community-based tactic for years. The principle: field grass-roots candidates for local offices, thereby extending the political network before you enter...
Love thy neighbor. A simple precept all too difficult to practice. So when the lion and the lamb do lie down together, everyone is surprised. Hate is such a ferocious force that we are awed to see it fade away. Yet we have seen that happen with amazing speed in the past four years as one of the two great conflicts of our age vanished: the Berlin Wall fell, the cold war ended, the Soviet Union collapsed. Now, in a moment that astonishes the spirit as well as the mind, the other great enmity recedes as Israelis and Palestinians embrace...
...however, said the hope of creating anethnic studies department will not fade with thesubcommittee's report. He said he will likely pushfor a separate ethnic studies department atHarvard, like those at Columbia and many WestCoast colleges
Will the Serbian conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina end with a bang or a whimper -- the crash of bombs or the fade-out of NATO's threat to attack? The answer depends on a dozen conflicting motives, but most of all on the Serbs. Once again the confident Bosnian Serbs are playing the U.N. and NATO like stringed instruments. The Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, and his military commander, Ratko Mladic, last week eased the strangulation of Sarajevo a notch, calculating how much would be just enough to make the U.S. and its allies hold fire...