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...successfully endured this 1988 election, if only because its corrupt and fraudulent electoral tactics have enabled it once again to win. History has shown that the party which counts the votes is seldom a loser, but history is known to change. The PRI has proven that it can be somewhat flexible, but unless it lets down its rigid defense of power it will not last long...
...never planned. "It was serendipity all the way," he says. Little in his childhood suggested he would someday become a bridge across Latin and Anglo cultures. The youngest of three sons of a Cuban father and an American mother, Rabassa grew up in and around New York City and seldom heard Spanish spoken about the house: "As a Cuban, my father was eager to adapt to his new environment." The Rabassas later moved to New Hampshire, where Gregory attended high school, but it was only at Dartmouth College that he took up the study of Spanish in earnest. During World...
That is at least one worry a gay actor would probably not have had. Why? Because gay actors seldom take the risk of accepting gay parts. Like Rock Hudson, they often find it safer to play ladies...
...Politics seldom makes stranger bedfellows than Jesse Jackson and his campaign chairman, California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown. They are Mr. Outside and Mr. Inside: a true believer with a provocative message advised by a hard- bitten political agnostic for whom election to office has become not a means but an end. While Jackson campaigns as champion of the dispossessed, the deliciously flamboyant Brown drapes himself in $1,500 Brioni suits, roars around Sacramento in a $100,000 crimson Ferrari and squires striking women half his age. This extravagant life-style is certainly not financed by his $37,105 state salary...
Skeptics will wonder whether a liberal Northeasterner can make inroads with the evangelical community. They should remember that Reagan, a divorced actor who seldom attends church, took in more evangelical support than a Southern Baptist sunday school teacher. (The Southern Baptist Convention, with nearly 15 million members, is the largest evangelical group.) The main reason: Carter ignored evangelicals while Reagan actively pursued their support...