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...addition, Schacter has charged another member of the commission with miscounting the ballots to award Byrne-Jimenez a seat on the council. A recount revealed that Byrne-Jiminez placed eighth rather than third, as originally claimed. Two weeks after the elections, the commission member resigned...
...municipal officials were indicted for misconduct. Groused former Mayor Hank March: "We've been putting up with mismanagement and ineptitude for 16 years." As Crystal Beach braces for the tumult of its annual Crab Festival this weekend, the battle continues. A petition has been filed demanding a recount of the vote, and Mayor-sort-of- elect Kelsey promises a lawsuit over 50 alleged election irregularities. Anarchy has not yet descended, but there are grounds for concern. One night last week a young motorcyclist roared down city streets. "You can't do anything to me, man," the motorcyclist taunted the local...
Between these parades of caricatures, the players recount the ups and downs, but mostly downs, of the feminist movement. The cause is alternately vulnerable to infighting, anti-feminist women firmly entrenched sex roles, and a society which for the most part refuses to yield...
...home, the boys are preparing an elaborate dinner, all the while chopping, mincing and braising the opposite sex as they recount their lubricious adventures. Down at the gym, the girls are working themselves into a lather on the same subject. Writer-Director Denys Arcand has worked out an amusing role reversal to enliven his intensely talkative movie about middle-aged French Canadian academics. And his actors are willing to bare their less than perfect bodies along with their less than perfect souls, thus lending credibility to their reports from the front lines of the war between the sexes...
...decade of civil rights activism, a decade chronicled in a remarkable new TV documentary, Eyes on the Prize. The six-week PBS series, produced by Henry Hampton and debuting on Jan. 21 in most cities, uses a mix of historical footage and fresh interviews with participants to recount the major events that followed the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation. Names and episodes parade by like battles in a familiar military campaign: Rosa Parks' refusing to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery bus, nine black students' trying to attend high school in Little Rock, the murder of Civil Rights...