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1 CATHY FREEMAN You could argue--and we do--that the women's 400-m run in Sydney was the most sociopolitically burdened footrace since Jesse Owens ran upside Hitler. Under enormous pressure, the Aborigine Freeman came through magnificently in front of her cheering, weeping countrymen. She said she had...
I started thinking about the legitimacy of Jesse Jackson. A few minutes before Gephardt, Jackson was Russert's guest on "Meet the Press." Jackson has become unelected pontifex maximus of African America. He makes the rounds of the media, dispensing what is presumed to be the outrage of all blacks...
--Jesse M. Shapiro '01
Jesse Jackson says the Supreme Court's action was equivalent to the Dred Scott decision - and we all know where the Dred Scott decision led. (Nonetheless, Jackson, with his demagogue's mastery of footwork, phoned the President-elect to talk unity.)
The American people, by the way, seem to have done fine. Through 35 head-scratching days, their divisions never got more violent than the things they shouted at the TV. Now they'll be tuning in for the last press conferences of a political and legal fight that splashed read...