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...advanced stage of social, economic, and moral disintegration," seizing opportunity, making use of programs like affirmative action for example (as both men admit was part of the reason they made it to the Ivy League as students), is an integral part of success. A Yankelovich Partners, Inc.--New Yorker survey (the results of which were published in the special issue of The New Yorker called "Black in America") conducted among approximately 1200 African-American adults found that "forty-eight per cent of African-Americans believe that the failure of blacks to take full advantage of the opportunities available to them...
While slugging it out over legislation, Liapakis, a 49-year-old New Yorker whose father ran a bar near Ebbets Field, has kept the next election in sight--and emily's List in mind. In fact, she is planning to apply some of emily's tactics to the trial lawyers. Her association has asked the Federal Election Commission for an O.K. to begin "partisan communications" with its members, in which the group would endorse candidates and recommend both the timing and amount of contributions. Liapakis, who learned litigation from personal-injury pioneer Harry Lipsig, describes her plan in terms...
...Grey gets new energy from the messages on his voice mail back in Illinois. There are interview requests and legislative updates from all over the country. An Omaha, Nebraska, doctor wonders where to send a $100 contribution. A Honolulu minister requests information to distribute. A New Yorker wants Grey to fight off-track betting in Chinatown. "Sometimes I feel like I'm riding a wave," he says, "and all I have to do is stand up on the board...
Brooke Astor turns 94 this week. And what better present than to have a poem (four lines, rhyming couplets, iambic tetrameter) published for the first time in the New Yorker last week? The philanthropic nonagenarian told the New York Times that she has been writing verse since she was six. The New Yorker is publishing only three of her works, so there's plenty of material left. Does Modern Maturity take poetry...
...wonder if the woman in the old-fashioned pink dress on the cover of the New Yorker has ever thought about these things. Somehow, I doubt...