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...author's message was headlined APOLOGY and inserted in 250 fresh-off-the-press children's books given to guests at last week's Congressional Black Caucus Foundation luncheon in Washington. "I apologize to you all for the atrocities which I and others committed against our race through gang violence," wrote Stanley ("Tookie") Williams, who in 1971 co-founded the nation's largest and arguably most violent street gang, the Crips. "I pray that one day my apology will be accepted...
Gates says possible goals for entry into social policy can come through participating in the Black Congressional Caucus, forming coalitions with other black policy institutes and producing scholarly research which public officials can turn to for reliable data...
...Democratic caucus meeting on the budget a few months ago, Daschle asked Kerrey to say a few words about the coming Senate races. Cosseted in the clubbish ways of the Senate, Kerrey's colleagues were expecting gentlemanly homilies on the need to pitch in. Instead, recalls Daschle, "he began shouting like a drill sergeant, knocking out orders for the amount of fundraising he expected: 'Take it out of your own pocket, take it out of your campaign funds, go and raise it!'" Finally, a female Senator interrupted the barrage, saying, "Look, you don't have to shout at us." Kerrey...
McCarty has already been President Clinton's guest at the White House and the guest of honor at a dinner held by the Congressional Black Caucus. She will receive a Doctorate of Humane Letters...
...Just a month ago, he lost New Hampshire to conservative columnist Patrick S. Buchanan and went on to lose three of the first five primaries. But, with Wisconsin still up in the air yesterday, he had piled up a 21-0 primary record since, and added a couple of caucus victories to boot. "Part of our strategy, of course, early on was to lose New Hampshire," Dole joked...