Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work to do. Black leaders have not forgotten that it was Gore, as a presidential contender in 1988, who first raised the issue of "weekend passes for convicted criminals" against Michael Dukakis, spawning the infamous Willie Horton ads that helped win the election for George Bush. Fellow candidate Jesse Jackson accused Gore operatives then of employing a subtly racist strategy against him in the South and a blatant one in New York, where Gore's leading backer, Mayor Ed Koch, said Jews would be "crazy" to vote for Jackson...
These days, Jackson says he considers Gore "a very decent man." But some members of the Congressional Black Caucus have a new grievance against Gore. Last week the caucus drafted a letter to Clinton demanding to know why former Louisiana Congressman Cleo Fields did not get a high-level appointment. Fields' backers had been led to believe he had earned one after Gore persuaded him to set aside his differences with Senate candidate Mary Landrieu and help her win the race. When Fields showed up for work in Washington on March 31, he found that the prestigious...
...pretty sure that Nostradamus predicted a premillennial Hollywood plague of natural-disaster movies. Last year Twister; this fall The Flood. In February, Dante's Peak sent small-town folk scurrying from their local Vesuvius; now Mick Jackson's Volcano has man tamper in God's domain--by daring to build a subway in L.A. The script, by Jerome Armstrong and Billy Ray, thus exploits two major fears of Angelenos: getting demolished by a horrid subterranean force, and having to take public transportation...
Selection into Phi Beta Kappa is based on "purely academic" qualities, said Sarah E. Jackson '98, who was selected into the society...
...honored juniors are: Charlene S. Ahn '98, Ahmet S. Berker '98, Agnes Dunogue '98, David F. Elmer '98, Narenda K. Ghosh '98, Clifford M. Ginn '98, Robin S. Goldstein '98, Carrie E. Grimes '98, James M. Higbie '98, Jackson, Johari, David A. Lambert '98, Kenneth Y. Liu '98, Jay P. Makadia '98, David W. Marcus '98, McDermott, Karthik Muralidharan '98, David E. Petrain '98, Jinesh N. Shah '98, Sherman, Shirin A. Sinnar '97, Darlene Smith '98, Teleman and Brant K. Wong...