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...accelerators, duck their heads and try to speed away from the fusillade of bricks, bottles and bullets. "There's one, that's a white one!" a black screamed as a yellow Toyota passed an intersection. The driver spun his wheels frantically in an oil slick before escaping the approaching mob. Recalled white Motorist Jim Davis: "The police had put up a roadblock. I couldn't get around it. I went into a U-turn, but my car stalled and they came running at me. I heard them scream, 'Honky!' I got the car into gear and knocked them...
...balance tends to tip toward the fellow with the loudest voice--the crank with the thickest sheaf of mimeographed papers under his arm. The Founders had a horror of direct democracy for this very reason, and the system they devised was meant specifically to calm the passions, quiet the mob and channel its energies, and create a space for sober decision making by people the voters had chosen to make decisions for them...
...plows through the press mob or watches as the lawn of her suburban bungalow is chewed up by a stakeout, the anguish visible on her face comes from her knowledge of Bill Clinton, the man up close, not the President we write about from afar. No doubt she's been a victim of his carelessness, as so many have, but she has also been the recipient of a hundred kindnesses. When her brother and sister died suddenly and young in the space of six months, Clinton dropped everything to go to both funerals...
...reform done to the TEAMSTERS, once the nation's richest and most powerful union, what the Mob couldn't? The latest financial report prepared by the union's secretary-treasurer and obtained by TIME, shows that the scandal-plagued union may be down to its last dime. The report, dated Jan. 26, 1998, and covering the fiscal quarter ending in September 1997, shows only $702,000 left in union coffers. Insiders say Teamsters headquarters faces large-scale layoffs within the next week or two. Those layoffs and the as-yet-unpaid bills for the government's inept efforts to clean...
...Teamsters' last election, will require the union to fund the next one, probably in the spring. It will also send the Teamsters the tab for its abortive investigation into the fund raising of front-runner JAMES P. HOFFA. As a former officer said, the government has done what the Mob couldn't do: bankrupt the Teamsters...