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Changes at the FBI Keeping a promise to increase the diversity in the fbi's upper ranks, Director Louis Freeh promoted a woman, a Hispanic man and an African-American man to assistant directorships at the agency...
...turned out that among a select cohort of American military personnel who had been followed over decades, the roughly 1,200 carriers of the trait, all of whom were African-American, were 40% more likely after adjustments to be infected with HIV than noncarriers. From that sample, Weiss and his colleagues extrapolated the infection risk attributable to the gene variant in Africa, where a 40% increased susceptibility to infection translates to about 11% of all infections...
...watching the media describe what it is, exactly, that Jackson wanted to do to Obama.) But by the end of the week the consensus was that Jackson had done Obama a favor, as the contretemps give Obama the freedom to distance himself from Jackson without directly offending his African-American base. Gramm's comments about economic hardship may be harder for McCain to shake, explaining the candidates immediate on-camera denunciation. They play right into negative stereotypes about Republican insensitivity to the suffering that McCain is trying to escape...
...consider the Democratic Party. The one-on-one rivalry between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama lasted only about three months from beginning to end. Their policy disagreements are negligible. For many Clinton supporters, the chance to elect an African-American President represents the culmination of a cause they have been fighting for all their lives. Yet almost half of Clinton supporters tell pollsters that they will not vote for Obama. And Clinton's big-money backers are deflecting money and energy away from their party's presumptive nominee...
...Africa, some of the poorest areas in the world, staying and supporting families? Barack Obama is right: this issue is a social one with some economic underpinnings, not the other way around. Black churches need to play a strong role in re-establishing the place of fathers in the African-American community, drawing upon a beautiful cultural heritage to forge strong generational bonds that will link fathers to sons. Alyssa Rippy, TULSA, OKLA...