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Naturally, Black New Yorkers see the propping up of a white bureaucrat over a qualified Black educator as a slap in the face, particularly because two-thirds of the school population is Black and Hispanic. Yet in a show of hypocrisy best described as Orwellian, Koch and his ever-faithful handmaidens on the editorial board of The New York Times continue to argue that the appointment should be based on "merit and not ethnicity." To some, it represents yet another example of the cheerful politics of polarization which continue to be Koch's trademark...
...their U.S. competitors. Chrysler's fleet averages 27.5 m.p.g., vs. 24.3 for Ford and 24.1 for GM. If falling oil prices spur a demand for old-fashioned big cars, Chrysler will hurt the worst. Says lacocca: "What's happening with gasoline is wacko. It's crazy. We needed to slap at least a quarter on the pump so that people didn't get into dirty habits and start buying those rear-wheel-drive New Yorkers like they were going out of style...
Hawke doubtless profited from a campaign that focused less on issues than on personalities. Sometimes brawling, sometimes brilliant, he was thoroughly in his element, always ready to win friends with a slap on the back or to convince voters with his eloquent rhetoric. Above all, he spoke to the common man. As the Melbourne Age put it, "He is the best communicator in the country, capable of reducing complex arguments to simple sentences, at times punctuated with the odd expletive." Hawke seized the momentum when the campaign began and never relinquished...
...calls his colleagues "bastards" and ridicules him for hypocrisy: "One minute our bleeding heart, the next our red-toothed warrior. Whereas all you really are-when it comes down to it-is a bloodthirsty, land-grabbing little Jew." He steps back into his own character long enough to slap her, twice and very hard. Shuttling between Palestinian enclaves in Lebanon, Charlie realizes that hostile aircraft have become new facts in her life: "It had not occurred to her, in her ignorance, that the Palestinians might possess no planes, or that the Israeli air force might take exception to fervent claims...
Less than two minutes into the period, the puck got past the Friar goalie, but referee Robert Quinn disallowed the goal, ruling that winger Dave Connors had kicked the puck with his skate. Mark Fusco and Code kept Proulx on his toes with several tough slap-shots in the next few minutes. And after Greg Chalmers stole the puck in the Providence end, forcing defenseman Randy Velischek to take a holding penalty, the Crimson finally broke...