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...Tuesday, as several hundred thousand glossy copies of the deal drop onto doormats. It?s the beginning of a British government campaign to encourage people in the province to vote in next month?s referendum -- a campaign that stops short of calling for a ?yes? vote. ?The dominant political slogan here for a long time has been ?Ulster Says No,? so it can be counterproductive to just come out and say it,? said a Northern Ireland Office spokesman...
DIED. BELLA ABZUG, 77, champion extraordinaire of women, labor, blacks and any other underdog society could muster; in New York City. With the slogan "This woman's place is in the House--the House of Representatives," she won a seat in Congress in 1970 and bowled over Washington with her in-your-face manner and her raspy voice for reform. Abzug's signature hats were as wide and as colorful as her crotchety chutzpah...
...have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character"--has been put to uses he would never have endorsed. It has become the slogan for opponents of affirmative action like California's Ward Connerly, who insist, incredibly, that had King lived he would have been marching alongside them. Connerly even chose King's birthday last year to announce the creation of his nationwide crusade against "racial preferences...
...about those people, I wonder who they are. But I'll never know. The press hysteria before the election was extraordinary. Ordinary people no longer trusted or respected the moribund Yeltsin, but many were afraid of the communists and Gennadi Zyuganov, so the campaign was carried out under the slogan THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS or BETTER DEAD THAN RED. All my friends either voted for Yeltsin, sighing and chanting the sacred phrases, or, overcome by apathy or revulsion, didn't vote at all. I asked everyone, "Why not vote for Gorbachev?" "He doesn't have a chance...
...Polish icebreaking, Eastern Europe might still be frozen in a Soviet sphere of influence, and the world would be a very different place. With all Walesa's personal faults, his legacy is a huge gain in freedom, not just for the Poles. His services were, as an old Polish slogan has it, "for our freedom--and yours...