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Noble attributes that attitude to the complacency of the ruling class. "They don't want to shake the wagon because then their little goody train gets broken up," she says. "What my candidacy does is break up the ballgame...
...hectic and overwrought. But the family is believable, and Olivia Burnette is totally winning as Dorothy Jane. With a voice that cracks charmingly at the high end, she can take a routine wisecrack ("They're just an unsuspecting, innocent family. Please don't turn into the Welcome Wagon from hell") and make it a cry of adolescent anguish. A TV kid whose jokes are rooted in real feelings and family tribulation. What a concept...
...latest flare-up of black-Jewish tensions was sparked on the hot, muggy evening of Aug. 19, when a station wagon driven by a Hasidic Jew ran a red light, collided with another car, then jumped the curb and struck two black children. Gavin Cato, 7, was killed, and his cousin Angela Cato, 7, was seriously injured. Crown Heights blacks became enraged that the driver, Yosef Lifsh, a member of the ultra-Orthodox Lubavitcher sect, was not arrested and charged with Cato's death. Their anger was compounded by the false rumor that Lifsh was drunk and by the fact...
...frontier scouts and settlers, cavalrymen and trappers, and the American Indians -- noble at first, then seen as degenerate enemies of progress as the century went on and their resistance grew, and finally (by the 1890s) turning into doomed phantoms. Its landscapes are prodigious. Its stage material includes the Conestoga wagon, the simple cabin, the tepee, the isolated fort, the deep perspective V of the railroad -- and at the end, symbol of absolute victory over nature, the California sequoia with a road cut through its trunk...
Conservative polemicist Dinesh D'Souza is living every nonfiction author's fantasy: to publish at precisely the politically correct moment. Like the cavalry in an old-time western racing over the hill to save the wagon train from the murderous Indians -- oops!, misunderstood Native Americans -- Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus arrives just as public outrage is building to a peak. Liberals and conservatives alike have suddenly joined forces to ridicule the excesses of left-wing policies and posturing in academia. It is almost as if, having exorcised the legacy of Vietnam in foreign policy, Americans...