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...would you feel if the newsstand on the corner carried Southern Partisan Magazine, a neo-Confederate publication? I would feel shocked and outraged—not that such speech is legal, but that members of my community traffick in hate speech. Fortunately, we can all rest easy that Out of Town News and Nini’s Corner do not carry such garbage. How would you feel if the newsstand on the corner sold a cartoon called “Chester the Molester,” in which a young Jewish girl is lured by a dollar bill attached...
...Between the partisan extremes, Emerson writes, "there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground... the skeptic, namely. He finds both wrong... He labors to plant his feet, to be the beam of the balance... You are both in extremes, he says... you are spinning like bubbles in a river... you are bottomed and capped and wrapped in illusions...
...named Scar is sure to have some fascinating moments. Last Friday's denouement, in which a New York Supreme Court jury declared SEAN (PUFFY) COMBS not guilty on weapons-possession and bribery charges stemming from a nightclub incident in which three people were shot, didn't disappoint. The Puffy-partisan courtroom exhaled a collective sigh of relief, Johnnie Cochran hugged his second most famous client, and Puffy's mother JANICE, who had brought him brown-bag lunches throughout the seven-week trial, thanked the Lord. Combs' friend and sometime bodyguard, Anthony (Wolf) Jones, was also exonerated, while Combs' rapper protege...
...reelected without taking this issue on. I believe that there is a strategy that his administration could unfold here, one that embraces industry, gets their concerns and provides incentives for industry. He can say, 'Look, I came to Washington campaigning that I knew how to lead and cut across partisan bickering and bring people together. The previously administration said they cared dearly about this issue but they were totally unable to lead. I'll show you how with their issue, I can lead.' The script is there. The man could play this. He could have an enormous international success without...
...Perhaps, the optimists thought, the partisan bickering over legitimacy would end once the "real results" were out in the open...