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Today a crew-cut Slater walks Denver's streets in a gray wool suit with a small Klan pin on his lapel. He carries a cocky attitude and a black Samsonite briefcase; inside is a copy of American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell's White Power. His favorite slogan -- "Equal Rights for Everybody; Special Privileges for Nobody" -- even shows a gift for glib phrasemaking...
...easy. "No makeup. No costumes. I wrote in bed every morning. Whatever came into my head. Someone types it up, and you have a book. I have no idea what it says. I've never read it." This, like wearing an old green raincoat fastened with a big safety pin to auditions to show that she didn't care whether they liked her or not, is something of a pose. There is an audiotape of her reciting Me, so she has read parts of it at least once...
...high court last year, Thomas has consistently voted with the conservative majority. That was exactly what most blacks, who knew of his opposition to affirmative action and criticism of civil rights leaders, expected. What they did not anticipate is that Thomas, who grew up poor in segregated Pin Point, Ga., would join in an important ruling earlier this year that could make it easier for whites to thwart the effective exercise of black political power. No brother, no matter how right wing, they felt, could acquiesce in such a ruling...
Many, if not most of the charges have beenlevelled at the ruggedly handsome, slightlygraying Sperling--the younger of the two--anexecutive who would look more comfortable in a J.Crew catalog than a pin-stripe suit. Sources closeto HMC have asserted that the darker, more asceticEisenson is better regarded in the industry...
...Libya was a political ploy designed to reward Syria for siding with the U.S. in the gulf war and to help win the release of the hostages. Even Vincent Cannistraro, former head of the CIA's investigation of the bombing, told the New York Times it was "outrageous" to pin the whole thing on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi...