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...room of the Tel Aviv television studio where his staff shot his election ads. As Sharon's campaign spot came on the air, the Prime Minister couldn't believe what he was seeing. Smiling Israelis of all walks of life, backed by the blue and white of the national flag, were intercut with a grandfatherly Sharon. Annoyed, Barak turned to his campaign manager, Tal Silberstein. "It's impossible that this guy shows himself with cows and wheat fields and playing with little girls," he said. "It's impossible with everything that we know about him. We have to change this...
...show, The Naked Truth 2000. Among his regular topics were local politics and society's war against black males. He also wrote a weekly column, "Tell It Like It Is," for the Champion, a black paper in DeKalb. As far back as 1994, he wrote that the Confederate flag "represents an act of treason, the enslavement, rape, murder and torture of Africans and African Americans. It is beyond belief that any sane person would want to preserve such a hideous legacy." He had few friends among the area's white supremacists...
...seedy characters gab about dogs and shoes and life's anguish, accompanied by offstage crashes, a chorus line of veiled lovelies and a guy toting a red flag. Not much about communism, but without Foreman, off-off-Broadway's grand old anarchist, life really would be empty...
...time, Karzai says, the local leaders will be replaced by professionals who are not part of local power structures. Anyone trying to do this in Khost could be in for a tough time. The brothers, fervent royalists, fly the royal banner from official buildings, not the current national flag, and pictures of deposed King Mohammed Zahir Shah adorn their cars. Their own way of ruling has a regal feel. The 55-year-old Pachakhan, Governor of three provinces, is an irascible potentate who holds court in the time-honored manner, seated on cushions at the far end of a long...
...agenda (pro-big government, pro-choice on abortion, anti-gun, pro-labor, environmentalist, against capital punishment, etc., etc.) and its conviction that it was robbed of the 2000 election, pitted against Bush's red-conservative (pro-life, anti-central government, pro-business, pro-development, pro-voucher, pro-prayer, pro-flag etc. etc.) America...