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...Alabama Democratic Conference, the state's black political machine, strongly supported McMillan in the primary. They brought in Jesse Jackson and Coretta Scott King to speak against Wallace, to remind blacks of what Wallace had been. The majority of blacks (an estimated 65%) went against Wallace. Still, it was the combination of rural blacks and rural whites and blue-collar workers that won for Wallace. That any blacks at all enlisted with Wallace is reason to reflect...
...must know by now from watching the evening news, your image is the number-one topic of conversation among unnamed officials in the White House. Our goal is a quick face-lift: zap those wrinkles of elitism and remind the American people that Ronald Reagan is a sweet guy who can still get tough, an economic radical who knows well enough not to know too much and to leave well enough alone...
Stern promised to remind College administrators of their pledge to investigate alternatives to tearing down the ivy. "What has Harvard's administration done since last spring?" he asked. "Nothing...
There's nothing wrong, of course, with quoting good material--provided that it's quotable to begin with, and provided that you have a reason for quoting it. But Jacobs' chief reason for quoting Allen, other than to remind us and herself how great he is, seems to be convenience. Rather than describe articulately what sets one "period" or theme in the work off from another. Jacob tends to rely on a shorthand composed of repeated, encapsulated jokes. "Needing the eggs" is her analytic code for a type of humor she never defines, but which can be deduced...
...oldest money manager in the U.S. Handling a $15 million portfolio for himself, relatives and friends, Murray has increased his fund by 32% a year, largely through canny investments in tax-free municipal bonds and by sidestepping the advice of his Eastern counterparts. "All the New York trust companies remind me of sheep in Brooks Brothers clothing," says Murray. "Whatever one does, the other does...