David J. Barron
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A Parting Shot
W E sit at separate tables, keep largely to ourselves, count people of our own group among our closest friends.
Michigan, Coach Bo and The Game
Jason McDevitt was short. He had a high voice. We called him Mickey, as in the mouse. Such is the
Who's Helping Whom?
T HE 1930s were the heyday for the nation's Black colleges. In the midst of a society commited to segregation,
A Paranoid Pledge
I T is unfortunate and unsettling to hear the vice president of the United States taunting his opponent for vetoing
Is Quayle a Boom or a Bust?
T HE Baby Boomers saw their political leaders murdered, first President Kennedy, then Dr. King and then Bobby Kennedy. In
The Murder-Suicide of Abe Fortas' Political Career
Fortas: The Rise and Ruin of a Supreme Court Justice By Bruce Allen Murphy 598 pp. William Morrow, $25.00 A
"Yeah, Gimme a Light"
N OW it's one thing to rail against astroturf. It's even understandable to get upset about the dreaded domed stadium.
The Search for Czars
S OME time ago, it became part of the conventional wisdom to suggest that the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson would
Revealing the Private
Harvard Diary: Reflections on the Sacred and the Secular By Robert Coles, $16.95. New York: Crossroads, 204 pp. I N
What Jesse Has to Do
A LTERNATELY hostile and accommodating in the past few weeks, Jesse Jackson has caused little trouble for his party. While