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...they don't know who they're dealing with. Instead of passively standing by as they rough up a Black activist, a previously withdrawn Sweetback beats the white cops to death--using the very handcuffs that restrain...
...Peebles is the original Black director. His experience as the first independent Black film-maker in Hollywood can be seen as a rough analogy to the film...
...says the vacation is a welcome change from the rough and tumble of Politics. Between cajoling his son, Charles E. Roemer '92, to do his laundry and attending as many hockey games as possible, he says he is enjoying the life of an undergraduate for the second time...
...fact, coaches are quick to cry foul when an opponent abandons the gentler Olympic style. After the Swedes were upset in a pre-Olympic warm-up against the Americans, the Swedish coaches branded the Americans hooligans. But Swedish center Bengt-Ake Gustafsson, a veteran of rough and tumble during nine seasons with the Washington Capitals, shrugged it off. "There was a lot of holding and pulling us down, that's all." Gratuitous violence of the kind that has turned N.H.L. hockey into a spectacle sport is the last thing American coach Dave Peterson wants to see, he claims...
...make it at least thinkable. The Democrats have got rid of the "bonus" rules under which, for instance, Michael Dukakis in 1988 won 66% of Florida's delegates with only 41% of the state's primary votes. All primaries this year will be conducted under a system of rough proportional representation. That decreases the chances that any candidate can lock up a majority of delegates early...