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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Mandela may lack the rousing, bred-in-the-pulpit style of black orators like King or Jesse Jackson. His soft-spoken manner and unflappable dignity bespeak his background as a lawyer, a single-minded political organizer and a longtime prisoner still blinking a bit in the spotlight. But Mandela's magnetism is palpable, the consequence of his endurance and determination in the fight against South Africa's white-minority government. He fires the pride of African Americans and touches a deep desire in the psyche of Americans both black and white for a leader who might rekindle the biracial coalition...
...attack on the state's tax structure, unveiling his $12.4 billion tax-and- slash budget. Anticipating that the state's liberal Supreme Court would soon order that aid to school districts be equalized, Florio beat the jurists to the punch by proposing his own plan. "Everyone is a bit shell-shocked," says former Democratic assemblyman Alan Karcher. "He had made a career out of being associated with safe issues...
Since his last trip to New England--a set of dates in Worcester this December to open up the current tour--Joel has tightened the set a bit. It includes fewer slow songs, and is less top-heavy with new material...
...black man bursts into a Manhattan millionaire couple's home, bleeding from an apparent mugging and claiming to be both a Harvard chum of their children and the son of Sidney Poitier, the startled Wasp hosts believe him. They accept even his screwiest assertion, that he can get them bit parts in a film of Cats to be directed by his father, because they, like most victims of confidence tricks, are blinded by vanity...
...been called "Reagan with brains," and she once referred to herself, in a rare try at humor, as "Genghis Khan." Such japes are a bit hard on the ex-President and the late Mongol scourge. Margaret Thatcher, Britain's highly conservative Prime Minister, is hard to humanize. Still, when Britain needed to be put to bed without its supper after decades of infantile class warfare, she did the job. Now unemployment is high, and education and health care are poorer. But Britain's economy and pride have perked up, and the middle class is prospering...