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...favors the upcoming Hyde-Gingrich peek at Ken Starr's investigation, and that the New York Times features, in its various editions, an indecisive study of education methods; a NYC school-uniforms policy; and sniping over the 1999 budget between Clinton and Congressional Republicans. The LA Times gets a shout out for its continued scrutiny of local and state prisons. And, finally, S's SS believes that the WSJ piece on declassification of dusty government documents -- at a secret CIA facility -- is noteworthy...
...Augusto Pinochet, who Wednesday took up the lifetime Senate seat he'd engineered for himself by rewriting the country's constitution -- and immediately got a taste of civilian politics. Opposition legislators taunted him with pictures of some of those murdered or "disappeared" under his regime, and there was a shout of "Assassin!" as he was sworn in. Novel experiences for a man whose opponents risked torture and death for standing up to him during his 17 years in power. Welcome to democracy, General...
...only semi-articulate, whether they were soldiers or scientists, or great statesmen, or the simplest of men. But in the dark depths of their minds and hearts, huge forms moved and silently arrayed themselves: Titans, arranging out of the chaos an age in which victory was already only the shout of a child in the street...
...form of living loudly is much more difficult than the first: it's a lot easier to band together against an ostensibly white oppressor than acknowledging the inequities within your minority group itself, but we can't ask for anything less. We all deserve the right to live and shout with our mouths wide, and our voices will only be audible when we have broken the silences open...
...Before the '70s had ended, he was enjoying a chauffeured Mercury, a Fifth Avenue apartment, an annual getaway to Martha's Vineyard, seats on four corporate boards and a reputation among some blacks as a "sellout." He didn't see it that way. "Black power will remain just a shout and a cry, unless it is channeled into constructive efforts to...influence the established institutions of American politics," he said...