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That was four years ago. On a street corner in northwestern Washington one evening last week, Barry stood on top of a ladder, his arms wrapped around a telephone pole, as a passing car came to a sudden stop. A young woman shouted from the car, "Hey, Marion Barry, you're gonna be mayor again!" Barry turned, a green campaign poster in one hand and a staple gun in the other, and acknowledged the endorsement with a smile. Across the street Kevin Britton, an elementary-school gym teacher, explained that he too wants the former three- term mayor back...
...death by drug overdose of Wardell R. Lazard, head of the most successful black Wall Street firm in history, will reinforce those proclivities. Yet it may be time to put aside such sensitivities and embark on a new phase of affirmative action that helps blacks move up the career ladder in crime as they have in other professions. Big-time financial crime is, after all, one of the last great bastions of racial inequality. Why should a small number of white financiers have a virtual monopoly on the only crime that really pays...
Second, and most significant in an era when coalition building is deemed a necessary requisite to military action, sanctions are an important step up the ladder to war. It took half a million troops to dislodge Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, but the alliance probably never would have come together if the sanctions that preceded the conflict had not invested America and its partners with a common sense of frustration at Baghdad's refusal to budge in the absence of force. The need to repel Iraq was appreciated because the world wanted the Middle East's oil at affordable prices...
...asking that the issue be given consideration by the administration which makes the final decision about who goes up the ladder," he said...
...their table to wish someone happy birthday, and I like that, I enjoy it. People are always really enthusiastic and responsive, they'll come up to me and tell me things they like about the show. Let's face it, I'm on the lower rung of the celebrity ladder. It's not like I'm a huge rock star. It doesn't get weird. I walk in and people say 'Hey Conan, how's it going?' and I'll go have a beer...