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The basketball metaphor was appropriate for Bradley, the former Knick forward who threw his share of elbows against the Celtics in the '70s, but it also highlighted the biggest problem with negative campaigning: the guy who fights back is the one who gets called for the foul. It is a...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Time for Instant Replay | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

It's become something of a bitter, rhetorical joke: Where would you rather be, as a black man encountering the police - New York City or Los Angeles?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Diallo Trial, Justice Is Weighed in Different Measures | 2/16/2000 | See Source »

Presently at Harvard, however, writing is the primary medium of political debate. At last count, there are more than twenty student publications but only one debating club. This is generally a good thing--on paper, it is considerably more difficult to hide flawed arguments amidst rhetorical flourishes.

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: The Lost Art of Harvard Oratory | 2/9/2000 | See Source »

The injunction was denied, but the charges of racism were not a complete surprise at the Department of Agriculture--even to Shirley Watkins, the USDA Under Secretary of Food and Nutrition, who happens to be black. In recent years, food activists with a reasonable point to make--whether it be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watchdogs Who Bite | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

In the midst of his wild vociferation, Keyes tends to take the sensitive question of race a bit far. The income tax? Like slavery. Opposed to abortion? As a black person, he's particularly sensitive to the devaluation of human life, he says. Media coverage of his campaign? It's...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: This Man Is Running For President: What Alan Keyes Learned at Harvard | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

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