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Take the parties. They arose in the 19th century as a two-way transmission belt. They gathered grass-roots sentiment and sent it up to the governing elites, who in turn used them to mobilize an otherwise unreachable mass electorate. A century ago you needed party rallies and precinct captains to get the message out. In the age of television and satellites...
Arthur Ashe is not Michael Landon. He did not wish to appear in an Exemplary Ordeal. Ashe has AIDS -- a fact that the public knows now because the Press (in this case a reporter and an editor from USA Today) reached into the most private precinct of his life (inside his body itself) and forced him to reveal his disease to millions of strangers. Ashe and his wife Jeanne have a five-year-old daughter. The girl was entitled to privacy and to tenderness in how she would be told, and when...
Christened Candy Cane, she makes her debut when Ruby hosts precinct night for the Dallas police force. The night marks Ruby's big debut, also--he finally gets his big break with the bosses. His challenge is to use his drug running links to free Santos Alienate (Marc Lawrence), their man in Havana, catapults Ruby into the limelight and allows him to play with the big boys at a mob gathering in Las Vegas. Soon, However, the bar owner finds himself embroiled in events that are beyond his understanding and control...
Eddie G. Marchesseuot, 66, an inspector for the election commission at Ward 8, Precinct 3--the Quincy House polling site--said he was impressed that 156 voters showed...
...harassment that persists in many precinct houses tempts female cops to try to blend in and be one of the boys. All too often that means enduring the lewd jokes transmitted over police-car radios and the sexist remarks in the halls. In most places it means wearing an uncomfortable uniform designed for a man, including bulletproof vests that have not been adapted to women's figures. The atmosphere is made worse because about 3% of supervisors over the rank of sergeant are women, in part owing to lack of seniority. Milwaukee police officer Kay Hanna remembers being reprimanded...