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David Duke claims to have abdicated the title of imperial wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Now he wants a new one: Louisiana state legislator. Last month Duke, 38, finished first with 33% of the vote in a nonpartisan election for representative from Metairie, a white suburb of New Orleans. In a runoff this week he faces runner-up John Treen, 63, a local builder and the brother of former Governor David Treen. Duke denies he is a racist and says coyly that he supports "civil rights for all people." Duke, who says he heads an outfit...
...guaranteed federal jobs. Last November only six of the 408 House members running for re-election were defeated, and three of the losers had been tarred by very serious ethics problems. Few incumbents lay awake nights worrying about the unemployment line; 88% triumphed with at least 60% of the vote, the classic definition of a safe district. The traditional levers of incumbency, augmented by the largesse of political-action committees, have created this modern version of a rotten-borough system. In the four House elections since 1980, a total of 1,740 seats were at stake, yet only about...
Students and faculty members said they were also concerned that Clark would be insensitive to race and gender issues. When Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell--one of two tenured Black professors at the Law School--held a sit-in in 1987 to protest the faculty's vote to deny a CLS adherent tenure, Clark said "This is a university--it's not a lunch counter in the deep South...
...public company, investors can vote on shareholder resolutions called proxy statements, Peterson said. But in a private company, he added, "a minority share holder has to go along with what the manager's doing...
...debates about proxy votes may be meaningless in the long run. Gray said this week that she thinks the RJR-Nabisco vote might be cancelled, while Peterson said he assumes "if there's any final vote, it's to approve the buyout...