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...recent election has proven only too well that the concerns of Blacks will only be served if they are properly understood as the concerns of all. Blacks rejected President Reagan almost unanimously, but were still powerless to block the re-election of a man whose policies have been shown to weigh most heavily on minorities and the poor. Bouyed by a white backlash against affirmative action, this Administration has successfully stymied, or even reversed, previous efforts toward nondiscriminatory hiring practices. Blacks cannot hope to reverse these trends without white support, but neither can whites hope to enjoy a peaceful society...
Without its big two, the squad was powerless to mount the offensive spurt it needed to get back into the game. B.C.'s lead held steady between 20 and 27 the whole half and was 26 when the final buzzer sounded...
During the debates I felt as if I were watching the emperor without his clothes. I saw a President outfitted by imagemakers; yet the nakedness of his ideas was obvious. His economic and social policies will exploit the powerless, invade the most private aspects of our lives and in the process may bankrupt the country...
...runs the show: he has broad leeway to offer evidence, summon witnesses and make arguments. A witness or "target" can invoke his Fifth Amendment right against selfincrimination, but in most states he cannot bring his lawyer in to the grand jury room. Even where he can, the lawyer is powerless to do much more than tell his client to keep quiet...
...only zealots in sight are willfully credulous European tourists. "You are a people truly young," burbles one foreign girl to the powerless and paralyzed Julio. "Everyone finds happiness in your country." Padilla knows better, and after a chapter or two of this biting phantasmagoria, so do all but the most naive readers...