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...Chick Elementary School represents the kind of school Newsome thinks there should be more of. Chick, whose African-centered program was fashioned by its enterprising principal, Audrey Bullard, occupies a bleak, brown brick building in a rundown east-side neighborhood of Kansas City. Ninety-eight percent of Chick's 327 students are black. "With a Eurocentric curriculum, it appears one race is superior over the others," says Bullard. "The African-centered curriculum makes them feel, 'I'm a part of this. I'm not on the outside looking in.'" Something must be working: Chick's students outscore some...
...little homegrown periodical called Spit in the Ocean. The idea was to have a different editor for each issue and let them call the deal. Dr. Timothy Leary had agreed to do an issue from his San Diego prison cell. I guess we expected some kind of bleak, jailhouse blues--but no: Doc writes to inform us that the theme for his issue will be "Communication with Higher Intelligence"--an ambitious aim even from atop the loftiest ivory tower. But from behind bars...
This exploitation of white resentment has had drastic effects. The exploitation of voter resentment can have the same effect. Surely, we can learn from the lessons of painkillers and apply them to political campaigns. Words, and especially negative words, can turn people off to entire processes. With the bleak portrait of government facing them in the media every day, Americans in the best-case scenario would react with apathy, and in the worst case with some action, at the words of those who exploit fears and tensions...
...that would be the potential political consequences of a communist victory. Hostility toward liberal values and democratic practices is embedded in the party's genes. With a communist President in the Kremlin and a red-led parliament, the future of opposition parties and the independent Russian press would be bleak. The most threatening outcome of a free election that brought Zyuganov and his ilk to power could be the end of free elections...
...that bleak Tuesday last week, Forbes' natural optimism was rewarded: Jack Kemp, in bed with the flu, called to say that, yes, he would finally endorse his fellow progrowth traveler. Suddenly the hot air whooshed back into the Forbes campaign balloon. But Kemp then seemed to have second thoughts about his belated impulse. The day after he came aboard he was disturbed to learn that Forbes was planning a new round of negative ads. Kemp telephoned Dole headquarters, wanting to speak to the Senator. "The good news," said a top Dole fund raiser, "is that Dole has a short memory...