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Dartmouth jumped out to a 6-0 lead over Harvard in the first-round game Saturday, but Crimson senior Chris Liles scored a try late in the second half. His successful conversion tied the score...
THERE are a number of reasons why Alderman Tim Evans didn't win last week's mayoral election in Chicago. The biggest problem was pointed out by Chicago Tribune columnist Mike Royko, the consummate Chicago political pundit. "It boils down to what the late Mayor Richard J. Daley"--father of the new mayor, Richard M. Daley--"used to say when one of his candidates lost. The reporters would ask: 'Why did he lose?' With a straight face, Daley would always say: 'He lost 'cuz he didn't get enough votes...
...late Mayor Daley went to great lengths to cultivate this antipathy. He gathered Black votes by saying he was doing everything he could to move them out of the ghettos while at the same time sending a message to white communities that electing him would ensure that Blacks stayed out of their neighborhoods. Harold Washington changed this for a short time by keeping his promises of reform--winning fair and square and giving everyone, white and Black, an equal chance to work for the city or to have their neighborhood receive city funding, and by the time of his reelection...
These were his fatal mistakes, and he now has two years to convince the city's Black community that he does have qualifications beside the fact that he was Washington's heir apparent. But it may be too late. Barring a complete Daley disaster or enormous change in the voting and registration habits of Chicago's Black populace, Daleys have a nasty habit of staying in office...
...supporting cast cannot match the brothers' intensity or composure, its members are adequate. Byrd is not quite slimy enough as the money-hungry producer, but he does a nice job in his second-act apologies to Connell. Eliza Clark, who plays the brothers' mother, makes her inevitable appearance late in the second act. Her deadpan senility (She has come from Alaska to the oppressive Midwestern heat without removing her winter coat) is difficult to accept, but she wisely remains in the background during the fascinating resolution of the brothers' conflict...