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This former Black Panther may be the only member of Congress to have served time for weapons possession (six months in 1969), but he is now an advocate of gun control. Rush is also the only Illinois Democrat on the House Commerce Committee. If he survives recent legal problems--with the IRS over back taxes and the City of Chicago for delinquent parking tickets--Democrats can keep one of their more interesting members...
...Most criminals in this state are less frightened of you than of Inspector Clouseau," said Kerry, referring to the bumbling detective in the Pink Panther movies...
There was no panelist named "Kathleen Kendlehurst." It seems that your reporter did not know of Kathleen Cleaver, the former communications secretary for the Black Panther Party, a Yale University graduate who teaches law at Emory University, a fellow at the Bunting Institute and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research for the past two years, and currently a fellow at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City...
Your reporter concluded by quoting a volunteer in the Youth Build Boston Program: "It was just so phat." It might have been more interesting if it was reported that Dusan Makavejev, the Belgrade filmmaker now teaching at Harvard (pictured on your front page) had received the The Black Panther newspaper in Yugoslavia in the late 1960s, and if the efforts to create civil societies in both countries was touched upon. --Gerald O'Grady, Cambridge
Judge Sonia ("Sonny") Klonsky inherits the county's case against Nile Eddgar and soon wishes she hadn't. Not only has she known--25 years earlier, in California--all three members of the Eddgar family; she also learns that Nile's defense lawyer is Hobie Tuttle, a former Black Panther and another old pal from her flower-child youth in California. Worse still, she spots her live-in boyfriend from those days among the reporters covering the trial. He is Seth Weissman, who is now, under an assumed name, a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist...