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...Bush backers say the same. But the who-does-it-hurt-the-most question is fast becoming irrelevant. If he could keep his support through the fall -- the ultimate challenge for an independent candidate feeding on voter protest -- Perot would not be a spoiler but the front runner in the popular vote for President...
...finals yesterday, it was another story. Maryland played like a team possessed. The terrapins were the runner-ups in 1990 (to Harvard) and 1991, and they simply would not be denied again...
...standard for urban law enforcement through the '70s and '80s. In the process, it became so muscle- bound and senseless that it was unable to cope rationally with a traffic hazard named Rodney King, let alone with rioters and looters. Here too L.A. takes us into a Blade Runner future...
...former Mississippian who was cheated of his property and driven from his farmstead for the crime of succeeding where a white man had failed. Risa (Cynthia Martells), the restaurant's sole waitress, gets her hope from religion and prophecy. Wolf (Anthony Chisholm) is a petty criminal, a numbers runner for the white Mob who gets along by going along. Sterling (Larry Fishburne, star of the movie Boyz N the Hood) is a rambunctious no-hoper, fresh out of prison and fated to return...
...some extent, Clinton may be suffering merely from being a newcomer to the national spotlight -- and one who quickly got tabbed as the Democratic front runner, thus assuring himself of exceptionally early and intense scrutiny. Clinton's wife Hillary recently wondered aloud why George Bush was not also being relentlessly pummeled about his character. Though she quickly apologized for raising the particular issue that she did -- whispers, never substantiated, that Bush had had an extramarital affair -- she had a point. Why has Bush not been questioned incessantly about his son Neil's involvement with a savings and loan association that...