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...wouldn't you charge Egyptian taxpayerswhen you would charge U.S. Taxpayers [forresearch]?" asked J. Roy Rowland (D--Ga.), whobriefly presided over the hearing...
...father, despondent because of his billboard firm's mounting debts, had sold its big, newly acquired Atlanta division just before killing himself. The young Turner did everything he could to nullify the contract and win back the business, luring away employees from the Atlanta unit to the Macon, Ga., division he retained, shifting lucrative contracts between companies, threatening to destroy financial records and "to build billboards in front of theirs." Turner ultimately persuaded the buyers to rescind the deal in exchange for $200,000 worth of stock in the company...
Thomas' biography -- he pulled himself up by his bootstraps from dirt-poor Pin Point, Ga., to Yale Law School and the federal bench -- has inoculated him against criticism of his record: it would seem churlish and hypocritical to attack this black Horatio Alger figure for being insufficiently sensitive to the plight of impoverished blacks. Though he may endure some tough questioning about his two terms as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under Ronald Reagan -- and some name calling from blacks who consider him an Uncle Tom because of his conservative views -- Thomas is all but certain...
...perhaps out of frustration that serious crime seems to be leaping out of control, some guardians of the law have taken to enforcing these juridical minutiae with singular determination. Consider Cobb County, Ga., where serious crimes like robbery have increased since 1990. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Rebecca Anding of Marietta was arrested, handcuffed and forced to spend six hours in jail on Easter Sunday. Anding, who had no previous criminal record, was apprehended picking tulips from an office park to place on her grandmother's grave. Another Marietta resident, Linda Judson, spent four hours in jail...
This is the shortsightedness of victimology. You're goddam right he made it by himself. Now you are going to take that away from him and say he made it because of affirmative action. He didn't have affirmative action back there in Pin Point, Ga. His grandfather made him go to school and study hard, and then he gets into the position where, yes, maybe he could benefit. But if all that early work had not been done, we wouldn't know Clarence Thomas today...