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...Park to slowing racial progress. His favorite gambit was to claim at nearly every stop that Republicans wanted to cut the benefits of Social Security recipients by $2,000 each. However improbable -- and hypocritical, since Clinton's own budget director suggested a similar package of entitlement cuts recently -- the ploy helped the Democrats win 26 seats in the mid-term elections during Ronald Reagan's first term. And Democrats have been faithfully trotting it out ever since...
...have thought about or cared how her self-serving concoctions would affect race relations around Union, South Carolina, the worst was avoided. Despite the police sketch of a black suspect that papered the area, feelings never boiled over and authorities weren't goaded into harassing the black community. The ploy of the dark-faced stranger works only when those around you share your worst assumptions. And this time, in this case, enough people were prepared to recognize that the face of the killer could be hers...
Senior members of the U.S. delegation even thought they had figured out how to elicit such statements. They invited onto the press plane an Israeli journalist who, at the news conference scheduled to be held in Assad's marble palace, could be expected to ask a leading question. The ploy backfired. When the journalist asked Assad whether he might ease Israeli fears by opening direct talks or visiting the country, Assad coldly turned aside the chance to offer reassurance, saying instead that one country's security concerns were no excuse for holding on to another country's territory...
...jury selection until after a hearing on the admissibility of DNA evidence in the case. The DA's office had asked for the delay because they could then pick a jury "untainted" by any media coverage of DNA results that come out in the hearing -- a well-known prosecution ploy, says TIME Law Reporter Andrea Sachs. "They don't want the jury to hear any of the outside information. They want a sequestered jury," says Sachs. "A sequestered jury is often a hanging jury...
Chicago Hope loses even more credibility when compared with NBC's ER -- which, in an inexplicable scheduling ploy, will air opposite Chicago Hope on Thursdays. ER was written and co-produced by Michael Crichton, the one-time medical student and author of Jurassic Park and other best sellers, and it's . clear no one told Crichton rules of television drama. Like don't cram too many story lines into one episode, especially if you're planning to leave some of them hanging. And don't introduce more characters than viewers can comfortably get to know in one sitting...