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There are whoops of support and moments of pin-drop silence among these voters who did not make it onto the '80s gravy train. Although Michigan voters have almost nothing in common with this walking Experiment in Living, the antinuclear former seminarian who has washed lepers with Mother Teresa in India and studied Zen with Buddhists in Japan is showing surprising appeal. As the campaign enters mid-stretch, rank-and-file union members, independents, rainbow-coalition minorities and educated, maverick Democrats are giving the former two-term California Governor a chance to build on his victories in Colorado and Nevada...
...sudden, three successive deaths shake-up the slumbering small town. First a high school student, then a homeless man and finally Adele Baraclough the local art patron are all found dead. The murders would seem unrelated except for the JUST ASK MONTY campaign pin that graces each corpse. Monty Monteagle, the newly-elected reform-minded mayor, is just one of the town's many suspects...
...Clarence Thomas' confirmation hearings last fall, his supporters argued that the judge's deprived childhood in Pin Point, Ga., would make him sensitive to the oppressed. But after writing a harsh dissent last week, the Supreme Court's youngest Justice and only black member found himself rebuked by seven of his judicial colleagues for ignoring "concepts of dignity, civilized standards, humanity and decency...
...Bush appointed Thomas to reinforce the court's right-leaning majority, the move was a striking success. Thomas has voted with Scalia, the most conservative member of the high bench, in each of the 13 cases he has participated in this term. Pin Point, it seems, is a distant memory...
After Roemer graduated from Harvard in 1963, he entered politics, rising from the Louisiana state legislature to the House of Representatives and finally landing in the governor's mansion. Throughout, he has been difficult to politically pin down...