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But the presence of U.S. Rep. Louis Stokes (D-Ohio) at the hearing was a tip-off that Frank was being discussed. U.S. Rep. Chester Atkins (D-Mass.), a member of the ethics committee, with drew from the Frank case because Frank is a fellow Democrat from Massachusetts. Atkins said...
Explaining this sympathy requires one of those shoe-on-the-other-foot tales. Perhaps dog-bites-dog is a better label. Like many Washington-based agents for large news organizations, I am mentioned in other publications now and then. Our work is parsed by press critics; we get into contretemps...
If Dinkins succeeds, New York would join the growing ranks of cities with black mayors. African Americans occupy just 1.5% of elective offices at the federal, state and local level, though they account for 11% of the voting-age population. But 22 years after the ground-breaking 1967 elections of...
Many of the first black mayors, like Stokes and Hatcher, were charismatic veterans of the civil rights movement who became national spokesmen for the plight of the inner cities. For their constituencies, long denied access to political power, the mere election of one of their own to offices from which...
Costner is something else: a grownup hero with brains. He's modern and classic. He thinks fast and shoots straight. He has city reflexes that help him beat the big boys at hardball. Yet he stokes memories of the lone man on a horse, silhouetted against the craggy horizon and...