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...that we've entered the overt phase where there is no longer any concern about tipping him off, we can go to all the locations of the bombings, the sites of the mailings and the places he lived and ask about him by name," the senior federal official said. "That means motels, hotels, airlines, buses, gas stations anything where his name or a known alias might have been used...
Harvard's KKK is sure to find support from their natural allies among conservative and right-wing students. It will not be too hard to persuade some of them to switch from promoting covert prejudice to endorsing overt racism. For example, fans of The Bell Curve are potential converts. Although it will be a bitter struggle, Harvard's Ku Klux Klan must organize...
...Milken's angst, however, he has never had an overt symptom of advanced prostate cancer, no pain in his bones, weight loss, chronic fatigue or problems with urination. "That's one of the things that's scary about this," he says. "Had I not had a PSA, I would not have known...
They reacted swiftly in part because the court's decision included a sharp warning that "if the law school continues to operate a disguised or overt racial classification system in the future, its actors could be subject to actual and punitive damages." Says Berdahl: "That gets your attention real fast." Other state schools in the circuit, which includes Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, are bound by the decision. Private schools may also be affected because many receive federal funds, and campuses nationwide are studying the ruling as a possible harbinger of things to come...
...thing when it threatens the Republican triumph of 1994. But was it "corrosive" in the years leading up to 1994? If any Republican said so, I never heard it. Systematic inculcation of popular hatred for "government," for "bureaucrats," for "Washington," for "Congress,'' for "elites" was an overt--and brilliantly successful--part of Speaker Newt Gingrich's Long March strategy for taking over the House. More generally, it became a reflexive part of the Republican political language. Sitting on cnn's Crossfire for six years, most of them opposite Pat Buchanan, I heard this stuff night after night, and not just...