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...Young's toe will be aimed at Tom Barrow, 40, a black businessman the mayor defeated four years ago by painting him as a pawn of white suburbanites. But Barrow has been blasting at Young's predilection for sparkling downtown development projects over measures to help the city's devastated neighborhoods. A cousin of the heavyweight champion Joe Louis, Barrow also derides the mayor as a holdover "from an old era" who naively granted sizable tax abatements to Chrysler and General Motors for plant construction projects that did not create as many jobs as promised or that cost taxpayers...
...Chinese government and risk a devastating setback to both strategic and commercial interests? Neither, said the President, who is something of an old China hand, having headed the U.S. mission to Beijing in 1974-75. Bush tried, as he put it, "to find a proper, prudent balance" -- to toe-dance between the horns of the dilemma...
Only eight weeks ago, the six-member Nominating Committee was poised to tap Peter C. Goldmark '62, a former student activist who is currently president of the Rockefeller Foundation. Many overseers, who say there is pressure on the Board to toe the University line, typified Goldmark as a leader who would have been more willing to enourage debate and dissension on the 30-member, alumni-elected Board...
WHAT disturbs me most about Bok is not that he dosen't toe the liberal line. It is that he cultivates the image of being a liberal when he really...
Anderson, who was once a sheriff in a county like this one, is much more the compassionate pragmatist. He wants a quiet investigation, conducted through sidelong glances, little toe-scuffing chats with the locals and the free play of his instincts. He can kick into angry overdrive with a grin still on his face, and is not above conducting a shy, country-boy courtship of a key witness (Frances McDormand) to get on with his job, which, as he sees it, is simply to find the criminals, not change the world...