Word: grahamism
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...seven elected--which gave him de facto control of a 30-block stretch. He flirted with the idea of running himself, then stashed those ambitions forever. "I preferred to be the cat with nine lives," he says. "If we lost, I was still employed." Says West Side activist Ross Graham: "Some of us wanted to change the world. Dick wanted...
...jackleg preacher. The tendency among the millions who have watched his career unfold over the past 30 years has been to seize upon one of those facets of his character to the exclusion of the other. Frady, who has previously delved into the lives of George Wallace and Billy Graham, shows that both aspects of Jackson's personality are not only genuine but also inextricably entangled. Jackson's lifelong task has been to put flesh on his trademark slogan, "I am somebody," which has always seemed directed as much at himself as to those he has preached...
...dare Mr. Graham accuse me of "ongoing harassment" of Reza Alavi when it is this gentleman, i.e., the editor of the Journal of Islamic and Middle East Review, who, along with his work-study student, attached to me their fabricated, phantasmagorical plot of a petty extortionist with the worst Middle East stereotypes. It sounds like the intellectual fascists at CMES are planning their second conspiracy against me with more false accusations...
...Graham writes about the "baselessness" of my charges. I challenge him to state publicly that the CMES and/or Roy Mottahedeh have never had any dealings/ties with the Disinherited Foundation. Also, I invite him to contact professor John Gurney at Oxford University and professor Ervand Abramian at City University in New York to learn that Mr. Roy Mottahedeh has done his best to defame me with other Middle East scholars...
...matter how diligently Mr. Graham works to defend his ill-reputed center, the fact of the matter is that it is a hopeless conspiracy against me, let along their amoral cohort with Rushdie's opponents, and, optimistically speaking, it is only a matter of time before the mighty hand of American justice reaches them...