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Dissatisfied Source. With that view of politics, Broder rarely overstates a case or falls into the common journalistic trap of discovering conflict where none, or little, exists. The results were evident in Broder's stories before and during last week's convention. While others made much of the "erosion" of Nixon support to Reagan and Rockefeller, Broder kept insisting that Nixon's delegate strength was still substantially intact. "I can't find any signs of motion that way," he said last week. He ran his own head counts, published firm numerical rundowns of key delegations...
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...identifying Styron's personal opinions as the most crucial aspect of the controversy, you partially fall into the same trap as those black critics who denounce Nat Turner from nonesthetic, and therefore shaky, platforms...
...Elephant Trap. Within three years, Frewen had married Clara Jerome, the daughter of a New York financier (her younger sister Jennie had recently married Lord Randolph Churchill). He had also regularized the shipment of champagne to the Powder River settlement, introduced white riding breeches and the English saddle to the region, made a friend of Buffalo Bill Cody, and become manager of a cattle empire capitalized at $1.5 million. In 1884, his sixth year in Wyoming, his Powder River company declared a dividend of 24%. The next year, however, a combination of bad weather, rustlers, homesteaders and an obtuse board...
Successively, he became involved as an investigator of graft in Hyderabad (he nailed the grafters), in the promotion of a machine to extract gold from low-grade ore (it did not work well), the colonization of Kenya (he fell into an elephant trap), lobbying for a gold-silver currency standard (it was not adopted), and the hawking of a patent disinfectant called Electrozone. If his promotion was good, his financing was inadequate, and if both were good, someone cheated him out of his commission. He borrowed from his brothers, his friends, their friends and his children, and lectured his nephew...