Word: silbering
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...Silber's record on civil rights date back to his vocal opposition to segregation at the University of Texas. According to the Bay State Banner, a newspaper serving Boston's minority community, Silber is a "visionary...his long record as a civil rights leader merit[s] the supports of blacks and progressives...
Both candidates support a woman's right to abortion--Weld unequivocally and Silber on the "Cuomo Principle," personally opposed, but in favor of the legal right to choose...
...education and civil rights issues, Silber holds an edge based on his record of achievement. He has a long and distinguished history as a Kant scholar and educator, both at the University of Texas and Boston University. He also has proposed significant restructuring and refinancing of the Commonwealth's school system--a plan modeled on Boston University's adoption of the Chelsea school district...
Much has been made of Silber's autocratic nature. Detractors also point to the much bally-hooed "Silber Shockers" as further evidence of his unelectability. Though we by no means endorse all of Silber's provacative comments, voters should not believe the hype. If Silber is elected, Massachusetts need not worry about the imposition of tyranical dictatorial government unless the State Legislature, and the State and Federal Courts disappear from the face of the earth...
...state of Massachusetts is not Boston University. Silber could not (even if, and that's a big if, he wanted to) abolish individual rights by decree. His critics hysterical assertions are essentially red herrings; they border on the moot simply because such a parade of horribles cannot be implemented by any governor. Rather than slavishly follow the media's largely irresponsible soundbite fixations, the citizens of the Commonwealth should see in Silber the administrative ability, intelligence, courage and leadership of which Massachusetts is in such dire need...