Word: oaklanders
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...perverse obsession with black people, an obsession for which he has been paid handsomely by right-wingers whose problems with blacks are probably more profound than his. Bashing black people is a lucrative 19th century industry that has survived into the 20th. ISHMAEL REED, PUBLISHER Konch Magazine www.ishmaelreedpub.com Oakland, Calif...
...January, FOX-TV News ran a three-part series exposing the blatant frame-up of Geronimo: FBI wiretap logs, and recent testimony of former Panthers, showed that Geronimo was in Oakland at a Panther meeting at the time of the Santa Monica murder; unknown to the jury, the key prosecution witness, Julius Butler, was an FBI and LAPD informer; and new, compelling evidence points to two associates of Butler as the likely real killers...
RECOVERING. JIM ("CATFISH") HUNTER, 53, Hall of Fame pitcher for the Oakland A's and New York Yankees and winner of five World Series; from injuries after he hit his head earlier this month; in Greenville, N.C. Hunter was diagnosed with ALS last year...
Some seniors, though, self-regulate. They don't drive at night or on busy highways. "I know what hours to go out and get ahead of those young people," says Mildred Mosely, 74, a retired nurse from Oakland, Calif., who cut back on her driving after cataract surgery...
...practical side, a child busy with sports is less susceptible to the lure of drugs and gangs and the despair we've lately seen in places like Littleton, Colo. "It keeps kids out of trouble and away from the TV," says Leea Kielpinski, 28, a nurse in Oakland, Calif., whose nine-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son play competitive basketball. Most sports programs, despite their excesses, manage to promote the old virtues: self-confidence, personal responsibility, teamwork, persistence, the ability to win and lose with grace. "In an organized sport, Danny's got to learn a little teamwork...