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While Reuther was a social activist, Hoffa focused on the exercise of power. The U.A.W. was organizing auto factories that had thousands of workers; Hoffa focused on small trucking companies with a simple two-step campaign. He would threaten to bomb employers' trucks if they didn't enroll in his union. Then he carried out the threat. It got results. His organizers took a cut of the dues and initiation fees of every new member. It was a franchise scheme that attracted Mafiosi and created a feudal structure of warlords...
...real estate developer leading a luxurious life, complete with antebellum plantation and trophy wife. Croker is struggling, though, to escape the half-billion dollar debt he has accumulated through failed developments. Meanwhile, when a wealthy white family accuses a black football star of rape, Atlanta's latent racial tensions threaten to erupt chaotically to the surface. As opposing forces vie for Charlie's assets and his dignity, an unemployed California factory worker rides an almost supernatural tide of events into the heart of Atlanta, interjecting an unknown variable into the literary equation...
...lockout which appears to threaten the NBA's premature demise debunks the most unmentionable of those problems-that its shaky legs are flesh brown, and bear the burden of much more than just a league...
...first is easy: if Saddam Hussein can halt U.N. inspections without a firm reaction, he gets a green light to rebuild his terror arsenal. "We know he'll threaten his neighbors again with reconstituted weapons of mass destruction," said Berger, and the U.S. would have ceded its power to stop him. R.I.P. to American global credibility. The second question is trickier: if the biggest air strike against Iraq since the end of the Gulf War doesn't bludgeon Saddam into resuming inspections, all formal restraints on his weapon building are still gone, and the U.S. is committed to an endless...
...fears escalate on both sides and debate on these and other issues seems ever more intractable, will colleges with student bodies and affiliations on both sides of the political spectrum increasingly shut out dissenters? That would not only threaten the free discourse that makes universities special places; it would also accomplish little except to further strengthen the prevailing opinions of the masses. If you want to see affirmative action reinstated or abortion banned, leave the classroom behind and work on changing the minds of the voters...