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...offbeat note, the Iorg brothers, Toronto's Garth and Kansas City's Dane became the first pair of siblings ever to meet in championship series history. The Iorgs went two-for-two on the evening...
...Frazier, Cayton, Drake, Bunche, et al., this theme is consistently pressed. In the serious literature which analyzes the organizational revolution of black urban social structure and its stratification system, the opportunistic behavioral patterns of this class is presented as a defining characteristic of the group. W.E.B. DuBois, for example, noted in an 1899 sociological study of the black community in Philedelphia, that the local elites were in general politically and intellectually bankrupt. They were, he wrote, "not leaders of the idealmakers of their own group in thought, work or morals." By 1932 little had changed in his view. When addressing...
...originality to the important social policy debates, they have managed to market themselves as architects of a new policy consensus. Consequently, these courageous young servants of the people are rented, and then imported to the White House for photographic sessions with the Gipper. It is im- portant to note that this constructive engagement was undertaken at the very moment Reagan was escalating his domestic policy war against the poor...
...Editor's note: Bob Cunha was admitted to McLean Hospital Saturday evening for psychiatric testing. He is resting comfortably...
...meat, dairy and sugar industries had been pushing for more relaxed standards. The recommendations stop short, however, of advocating a low-fat, high-fiber diet to protect against colon cancer, a regimen that has been endorsed by the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society. The new guidelines note that a link has been suggested between cancer and diets low in fiber, but conclude, "Whether this is true or not is not yet known...