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...white South Africans go through a lifetime without entering a black township! I came to New York City, where I lived for a time, and found that a majority of white Americans seldom set foot in a ghetto. They know nothing about the real life of black people. They react to what they see on television. I know because that is the way they reacted...
...asked myself why people did not react to me the way the Northerners did. I found that in places in the South where change has occurred, it has been genuine. Many white people go out of their way not to be seen as racists, not to give a racial connotation to any situation. It does not surprise me that more and more blacks are moving back south. Compare Birmingham with Boston, for example...
...Nicaragua remains in severe economic crisis, but so far Chamorro has stymied the Sandinistas with her motherly style. She ended the contra war in less than a month and quelled riots without bloodshed. "The Sandinistas are used to violence and confrontation," says Alvarez. "They didn't know how to react...
Campbell said she will wait to see how students react at the College Senate meeting tonight before she makes her final decision on the incident...
...political capital." Inevitably, this sort of criticism is hailed by Democrats and dismissed by Republicans as the prelude to a Kerrey bid for national office. To his discomfort, Kerrey often is introduced as "the one who will regain the White House for the Democratic Party." How does he react to such talk? "I ignore it," says Kerrey. "It's flattering, but I ignore it." He seems to sense that he may not be ready. But given the Democrats' abysmal shortage of candidates who are both ready and willing, Kerrey-for-President talk may continue to resonate -- to a point that...