Rudolph Giuliani and the color of politics in New York: a white Republican runs for Mayor against a black Democrat - and that, beyond any pretense, is what this race is all about
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Giuliani hopes to become the first Republican mayor of New York since the 1960s. The biggest challenge he faces, despite running neck and neck in public opinion polls against Mayor David Dinkins, is persuading voters to choose his agenda rather to vote along racial lines.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 1993
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Monday Night Football's Hail Mary
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The hiring of comedian Dennis Miller as a Monday Night Football sportscaster, together with the insurgent XFL, are tokens of a radical change in demographics for sports broadcasting, as young men increasingly favor more graphic and extreme forms of entertainment.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2000
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'Leave him alone' - the Diallo verdict returns me to that night, in the dark alley, when I pulled a rifle on the N.Y.P.D
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A crooked young white home-improvement salesman whose firm preyed on poorer New York City ethnic neighborhoods tells of defending a young black police brutality victim in Washington Heights in 1975.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2000
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