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Throughout the 180-page paperback, incisive articles on topics ranging from an account of Harvard-trained journalist W. Monroe Trotter's trip to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 to an account of 1920s Black-power activist Marcus Garvey's visit to Harvard create a vivid history of Harvard through the eyes of its Black graduates...
...Senate contests were filled with many tight races and lots of nasty language flying back and forth between candidates. In Wisconsin, Republican Frank Kasten and opponent Ed Garvey slung heaps of sludge at each other, resulting in negative voter ratings of over 50 percent for both. Kasten, who had two drunk driving convictions during in his first six years in Washington, narrowly edged Garvey, who was accused falsely by Kasten of embezzling $750,000 from the National Football Players Association. Apparently voters prefer a drunk to a thief...
...course, 1986 wasn't the first year of the negative ad. But it was the year that saw the medium reach new nadirs. In Wisconsin incumbent Bob Kasten suggested that his opponent Ed Garvey, former president of the National Football League Players Association, had misused over $750,000 in association funds. Kasten admitted that the ads implied things about Garvey which were untrue...
...Garvey struck back with ads about Kasten's arrest in Washington, D.C., for drunk driving--while the Senate was in session debating farm policy...
Large amounts of campaign money hurt democracy, by allowing candidates to control the way voters see them. Kasten, who had over three times as much money as Garvey, was able to turn down the offer of a 90 minute debate on prime time Milwaukee TV. Candidates don't have to worry about being covered on the TV news; they just buy TV time when they want exposure...