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...fact, a number of Southern states will send black members to the House for the first time since the turn of the century. Among the new faces: North Carolina Democrat Melvin Watt, a civil rights attorney, and Alcee Hastings, a Florida Democrat who managed to overcome the glaring taint of a 1989 House impeachment suffered during his tenure as a federal judge. To the north, one of the most talked- about new faces to join the House belongs to Illinois Democrat Bobby Rush, a former Black Panther whose radical history prompted his opponent, Jack Kemp conservative Jay Walker, to sneer...
...agents heard rumors that Taylor was preparing to air or distribute the video. That sparked the FBI sting. "It created a real dilemma for us," says one law-enforcement official. Why? Because the feds thought the ensuing media bonfire would destroy all hope of testing Oberwetter's honesty and taint the bureau, which would be accused of foot dragging in the face of a second potential Watergate...
...practice of law is a demanding and honorable profession. It offers challenging opportunities in a wide range of substantive areas. It attracts a talented, diverse group of people. Each profession has its misfits, and the law is no exception. But the actions of some should not taint...
Suspicious Stats. Maybe it's related to declining math scores, but these days the favored ploy is to taint by numbers. If a politician rattles off more than three statistics about his opponent's record, assume that at least one of those figures is a flat-out falsehood, yanked completely out of context and massaged by friendly computers. The more precise the number, the higher the likelihood of prevarication. Senator Joe McCarthy would never have set off the 1950s witch-hunts if he had merely claimed, "There are, I don't know, maybe 100, maybe 200 communists in the State...
...babies will fill the void left by hateful, negligent and even abusive parents. Violence becomes both an outlet and a source of their anger. Some of these people are incorrigible, but the others do the same thing you would in their shoes. On top of all that, they taint the lives of the ordinary citizens in the neighborhoods with the fear of death and the reminder that hard work rarely gets you anywhere if you are from the ghetto...