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...area's lousy public schools, has emerged as a forceful advocate of vouchers. Others back Rod Paige, superintendent of schools in Houston. Or Joyce Ladner, a sociologist at the Brookings Institution, whose idea of reviving orphanages to rescue kids from dysfunctional homes was appropriated by Gingrich. The big question is whether Bush would be wise enough to add independent-minded blacks of that caliber to his inner circle or would he succumb to the old Republican habit of stacking his government with second raters and Uncle Toms...
There's the larger question about whether this form of mini-media conglomerate can survive. The artist-as-mogul trend (Puff Daddy and Madonna, for example) has had a bumpy ride. Whether or not Wu-Tang winds up challenging the media giants, and whether or not the world-domination thing pans out, the band has built something it may be able to live with. "Sometimes I wake up and say, 'Man, we came from nothing and look at what we've got,'" says Diggs. "I just wish America one day can take a look and realize the prodigal children...
...show like this, so sprawling and vagrant in its scope and so impressionistic in its detail, is bound to be plagued by the question, If this, why not that? Especially nowadays, when we are used to assigning the same density of meaning (or lack of it) to a pot or a cigarette case as to a painting. Few visitors, for instance, will find their hackles raised by the inclusion of those essential emblems of California street art, the custom car and the hot rod. But if anything, the trouble is that the show seems rather weak on them. Good that...
...Boies was clear about what the Gore argument will be on Monday. "There is no federal question here," he said. "This is a matter of state law. No federal court has stepped in to change the result of a national election over the judgment of local election officials...
...question for Lewis and Clark was, as Clark put it at the start of her trial, whether it "adversely affected the sanctity of the election." And would the legal remedy - the trashing of some 25,000 legally cast ballots from both counties (or a statistically derived smaller number, as the Democrats in the Seminole case had offered) - do still more damage to that very sanctity...