Word: tricking
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Without Miller's hat trick, Harvard and MSU would have finished tied...
...true that the worst domestic crises that afflict America -- unemployment, debt, blighted inner cities, drugs, fatherless children, AIDS -- are especially wounding to black citizens. Jackson speaks for these victims but not exclusively for them. Blacks and whites must participate in the solution to problems they both created. The trick, as Bert Lance puts in it in Southern terms, is to "combine a minority of the majority vote with a majority of the minority vote" -- as happened in the 1986 election of Southern Democratic Senators, following on Jackson's campaign and registration efforts of 1984. Those elections, giving the Democrats control...
...Will, in the spirit of old crackers giving voting quizzes to blacks when they tried to register, earlier this year asked Jackson on television, "As a President, would you support measures such as the G-7 measures and the Louvre Accords?" (Like the red-neck quizzers, Will got the trick question slightly wrong -- the Louvre Accord was a G-7 measure). Jackson has survived cleverer ploys of exclusion than that, but can the rest of the country continue to indulge them...
NICARAGUA has put on its Halloween costume and is going trick-or-treating at every American door...
...sending more than 3000 troops to Honduras this week, ostensibly in defense of democracy, Ronald Reagan is letting an anachronism stalk the earth. A trick-or-treater in March. The ghost of a war we thought we had buried...