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...January 1993. The black population in America is 12.6 percent of all Americans. The House is a much more representative body than the Senate, with over 25 black members; but the obvious reason for this (which also explains why the Senate is a better gauge of the country's sentiment), is that it takes an entire state to elect a senator and only a district to elect a Congressperson. Accordingly, the majority of black people in Congress come from predominantly black districts. The dearth of black people in the Senate does not necessarily demonstrate racism on the part of voters...
While the Senate is certainly a better thermometer of American sentiment than the House, it is not a perfect indicator. The most telling evidence that Americans who are gay, black, Jewish or female, will be hard-pressed to ever see any of their own in the White House, is that there has never been a serious contender who was not a white Christian heterosexual male. Colin Powell is often used as a counter-example, but he never actually ran for president and no one quite knew what he stood for. If it had come to an election, be assured...
...land that lie before the logger's axe. Fights are inevitable when the economic interests of the present collide with the desire to preserve ecosystems for the future. But one of the surprising lessons of the bruising battles over the environment in the past few years is that green sentiment is again a powerful political force. That's why Alaska Senator Frank Murkowski failed to ram through legislation that would have facilitated timber cutting in the Tongass National Forest. In California the Clinton Administration reached an agreement that would protect Headwaters, a privately owned grove of ancient redwoods that...
...outdoors, and I'm not talking about lions, tigers and bears. "Even on well-lit paths and at appropriate times," Assistant Dean of the College Virginia Mackay-Smith '78 is quoted as saying, "all we can do is take steps to reduce the odds" of crime. Violence exists, common sentiment seems to dictate, and the most we can do is be informed and try to hedge our bets...
...amount of material success could satisfy their desires for meaning. That generation which had been so eager to conquer the cold industrial world, now looks fondly upon the simpler time of its growing up and is anxious to restore it at any price. This is the type of sentiment upon which Disney hopes to capitalize by offering a town centered around its school and community. It appears as if the current idea of the American dream is less about having two cars in every garage than it is about having two parents in every household...