Word: shermans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Votes received by L.A. sheriff Sherman Block, who died a week before the election for sheriff. He lost...
...Angeles County, 629,289 people voted for a dead man. Sherman Block, who held the office of county sheriff for 16 years, died of cerebral hemorrhaging five days before the election. His victorious opponent, Lee Baca, had turned Block's health into a central issue earlier in the hard-fought campaign. When Block passed away, Baca's position was clearly vindicated and the boon to his credibility helped him eke out a win. Still, Block's supporters point out that his strong showing despite his lack of vital signs was a clear message from voters. That message...
...already too much competition for that title--U.S. v. Microsoft could be the trial of the 21st century. Redmond's defenders and detractors agree that the case marks a turning point for antitrust law--and for any would-be monopolist of the third millennium. Will the 108-year-old Sherman Act establish a beachhead in cyberspace? Or will antitrust cops be forever banished from the world of bits and bytes? It is not just a Silicon Valley issue, either. "If Microsoft wins," says William Kovacic, an antitrust expert at George Mason University, "dominant firms everywhere get still broader latitude...
Kane, an Eskimo from Anchorage, Ak., read a poem by the noted Native American poet Sherman Alexie, titled "Imagining the Reservation...
...surely expanded it hateward as well. Wallace was one of the great political arsonists; no material in America was more flammable than race. He took his magnificent sneer and slurring menace up North to Rust Belt, hard-hat territory and, as if in a century-delayed retaliation for Sherman's march, he scorched the earth with a message of racial contempt and populist economic grievance. In the 1968 election, he took 13% of the popular vote and won five states...