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...LATE '40S, AMERICAN LIBERALISM MADE A FATEFUL decision: it went into the business of excommunication. Liberalism's leading lights -- figures like Joseph Rauh, Walter Reuther and Hubert Humphrey -- understood that unless they clearly separated themselves from communists and their fellow travelers they risked losing not just their souls but their political viability. Hence Principle 6 of the founding statement of Americans for Democratic Action: "We reject any association with Communists or sympathizers with communism...
...cameras and no free champagne--just real people paying for their own beer. This time, there was room to move inside, and the over-whelmingly white audience seemed to be having a super-duper time (many of them had even seen that knee-slapper Blues Brothers movie). Hubert Sumlin was on stage, and as he played into the middle of his set, an entire roomful of born-again blues brothers and sisters lets loose heartfelt whoops of deliverance from the technoheavy Boston club scene...
Looking back to 1968, Richard Nixon believes he had more support overseas than Hubert Humphrey: "I had spent the eight preceding years traveling widely and knew the leaders." Only the Soviets hoped Nixonwould lose: "They felt Humphrey would be easier to deal with." But when Nixon ran again in 1972, even the Soviets were foursquare in his camp. In their eyes, he was no longer a cold warrior but the architect of detente. That same year, when Nixon visited China, Mao Zedong gave him his blessing, saying, "I like rightists Those on the right can do what those...
...Gates for misleading other city officials into believing an adequate response plan was in place and ready to go. Initial response of the L.A.P.D. was marked by "uncertainty, some confusion and almost a total lack of coordination," the report found. Gates, even before reading the report, called Webster and Hubert Williams, president of the Washington-based Police Foundation and an adviser to the study team, "liars...
...American Repertory Theatre, provoked a wide range of responses. The A.R.T. organized three panels to consider the issues raised in the representation of the Crown Heights deaths. On October 8 (after the matinee), the panel will include Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair, Dept. of Afro American Studies; Hubert Jones, Dept. Dean of School of Social Work, Boston University; Charles Ogletree, professor of law, Harvard Law School; Henry Rosovsky, Geyser University Professor. On October 9, the panel will consist of Alan Dershowitz, professor of law; Florence Ladd, Director, Mary Ingram Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College; Deval L. Patrick, chair of New England...