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...Sunday, Cincinnati, Ohio: The final gauntlet began in the drizzle outside Riverfront Stadium a few hours before a Bengals game. The previous night, the Clinton camp had lost an almost irreplaceable resource: the candidate's voice. By early Sunday morning Clinton was, as issues director Bruce Reed put it, "the real candidate of the Silent Majority." Taking the stage, he sounded like Marlon Brando in The Godfather and spoke for 21 seconds, a personal record for brevity. "Bad. It's bad," he gasped. "I'm going to let Hillary say something." She delivered a brief speech filled with the pronoun...
...pages away, historian Adolph Reed, Jr. criticizes the same artists for "spew[ing] garbled compounds of half-truth, distortion, Afrocentric drivel, and crackerbarrel wisdom." Amiri Baraka, in his uneven but driving essay, inveighs against Spike Lee's forthcoming film, calling it part of the "black bourgeoisie's attack on Malcolm X." Marlon Riggs later labels Baraka's approach mere "rhetoric...
...Reed said competition to enter the Law School--and to find jobs upon graduation--is heated and pressure-ridden. And some students suggested that Harvard's prestige may have driven the student to desperate means...
...very important to go a top-tier school, especially in this economy," Reed agreed. "I feel sorry for the young woman who did this, but it's probably better that she was caught now rather than at a time when it could really affect her career...
While Bates and Reed empathized with the student's desperation, several law students said they were surprised--shocked at the discovery, and amazed at the holes in the LSAT scoring system...