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...Were oodles of maggots flavoring the taste.'' In another incident, he staged a protest of a power company's rate hike by symbolically tossing electric bills down a toilet while flushing sounds played in the background. In February 1992, Jackson turned his guns on Clinton when he unveiled a letter offering proof that Clinton had received an induction notice for the draft. Over the next few months, he told anyone who would listen -- including CNN'S Larry King -- that Bill Clinton was not fit to be President. A conservative who is far enough to the right so that friends jokingly...
...interviews with two Arkansas state troopers, Larry Patterson and Roger Perry, assigned to Clinton's security detail in the 1980s. They picture the Clintons as a pinstripe Jiggs and Maggie -- him often tiptoeing home past midnight, her sometimes greeting him on his return with a mouthful of four-letter words and a temper that Patterson says once resulted in a smashed cupboard door. Their relationship, author David Brock wrote, ''is more a business relationship than a marriage.'' As to the working methods of Clinton's alleged womanizing, Perry and Patterson claim he sometimes visited mistresses when he was supposed...
...presence: an inspiration to blacks, a recrimination to whites. What is more, he sensed the moral power his confinement had conferred. Mandela had always been willing to talk; violence was his recourse when the other side would not listen. One day in 1986 he sat down and wrote a letter to the government proposing a dialogue on the nation's future. This gesture received a secret but surprisingly willing response from President P.W. Botha, a hard-liner on apartheid who nonetheless had begun to sense his country's escalating dilemma. Apartheid was collapsing of its own inherent absurdity. Moreover...
Since its institution in 1981, the Salient has certainly done a lot of that. During the editorship of Gladden J. Pappin ’04, gay rights advocacy provided constant fodder for the magazine’s criticisms. In a Dec. 2002 letter to the editor, Pappin praised a 1920 secret court that disciplined homosexual students. The Harvard administrators’ actions had not been public until an article in Fifteen Minutes reported on them that December...
WHEELS IN MOTION Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, the co-chairs of the Committee on General Education, called for vigorous discussion of the report by faculty and students in a letter released yesterday with the report...