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...last revolution in America's city halls began in 1967 with the election of Carl Stokes as Cleveland's first black mayor. In the next two decades, hundreds of black mayors were swept into office by a tide of black pride, white-liberal optimism and the hope for an urban rebirth. As veterans of the civil-rights wars, these pioneering politicians saw themselves as crusaders for racial justice. For many voters, black and white, that was enough. As Jesse Jackson crowed after Harold Washington's 1983 triumph in Chicago, "Our time has come...
...Phillies were the "Whiz Kids" then. Granny Hamner--he just died, but he was the shortstop. It was a very good team, but I think if they played 20 World Series the Yankees would have swept them, all 20. There was a very big discrepancy in talent...
...Princeton 4-1 and had already sealed up a team victory and a seventh-straight ECAC title. Wallooppillai's injury stopped the finals, and the rest of the Crimson did what it probably could have done even before the tournament had started--claim the prize and go home. Harvard swept through all of its contests this weekend, dropping just two matches in the tournament and proving the futility of holding the competition...
...Abkhazians take the city, the entire country could be swept up by the conflagration. And then the word hell would apply not just to Sukhumi, but to all of Georgia...
This is the dark side of Islam, which shows its face in violence and terrorism intended to overthrow modernizing, more secular regimes and harm the Western nations that support them. Its influence far outweighs its numbers. The Islamic revival that has swept the Middle East is primarily a peaceful movement for a return to religious purity. But where desperation is greatest, a small number of radicals have resorted to military action to impose the Islamic ideology they espouse. For the most part, they are not members of some grand conspiracy sponsored by a state apparatus, but loosely organized, grass- roots...