Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...politics, working for the 1951 election of Philadelphia reformist Mayor Joe Clark, his first taste of squeaky-clean government. Dukakis still did not have much of a social life -- no one remembers a steady girlfriend -- and he did not join any fraternities because they blackballed people. He became a minor legend in college, setting up a dormitory barbershop to serve Nigerian students whose hair the local barbers refused to cut. It was a perfect Dukakis enterprise: high-minded and lucrative at the same time...
Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon) knows it too. She is a true believer in the church of baseball. Each season she selects the most promising prospect from her local minor-league team, the Durham (N.C.) Bulls, and instructs him in the arts of body language and the hanging curve. For some women it might be merely fast food for an avaricious appetite, but Annie is more than a jock groupie; she is an inspired coach on a couch...
...Dole and Robertson in the greenback derby; the difference was that Bush husbanded his cash far more effectively. Dukakis cleverly deployed a ; bogus PAC-man issue to keep his underfunded rivals on the defensive. Political-action-committee funding may be a problem in congressional races, yet it was a minor factor in the 1988 primaries. By frequently chastising Gephardt for accepting PAC support, Dukakis pre-empted any populist complaints that he was trying to buy the nomination...
Beatings and other varieties of brutality are rare. Minor infractions of camp rules may be punished with an hour "in the corner" -- kneeling in the dirt, hands behind the back, forehead to the ground -- while more serious troublemaking can earn a stay in solitary of two to four days. Three times daily the prisoners are mustered outside their tents, hands behind their backs, heads down, to count off. Dr. Abdul Aziz Rantisi, once a pediatrician from Khan Yunis and now an administrative detainee at Ansar, is known as No. 561. Says he: "Our hearts are bleeding, and we prefer...
Just what to do with all this equipment and manpower was another matter. With little chance for enterprising scoops, the networks elbowed one another for minor coups. ABC noted that it was the first to transmit pictures from inside the Kremlin, and CBS landed an interview with former Moscow Party Chief Boris Yeltsin. CBS's Rather, meanwhile, was the only anchor to get a face-to- face encounter with Gorbachev. It came by chance when the CBS crew, shooting inside the Kremlin, spotted the Soviet leader's entourage. While CBS Executive David Buksbaum created a diversionary scene, Rather squeezed past...