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Mandela may lack the rousing, bred-in-the-pulpit style of black orators like King or Jesse Jackson. His soft-spoken manner and unflappable dignity bespeak his background as a lawyer, a single-minded political organizer and a longtime prisoner still blinking a bit in the spotlight. But Mandela's...
There was also some concern within Mandela's entourage that certain American politicians would take advantage of his presence and upstage him. At the top of the list was Jesse Jackson, who had a way of getting into camera range at nearly every point along Mandela's New York route...
Many experts believe providing sterile needles to addicts would be one of the most effective ways of slowing the AIDS epidemic. That kind of program has shown promise in other countries, but in the U.S. such efforts are limited to a few locally funded experiments. The Bush Administration refuses to...
This may explain why the resentments the poor and middle class harbor at the end of the Reagan decade seem to have aggravated racial tensions rather than creating, as Jesse Jackson hoped, a "rainbow coalition" of poor and disaffected citizens of all colors. New York City has recently lurched from...
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