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...visiting fellows are: Dimitrus Avranopoulos, former mayor of Athens; Jeff Blodgett, campaign manager for former Senator Paul Wellstone; Glen Browder, a former member of Congress from Alabama; Andrew Cuomo, former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; Ron Kirk, former mayor of Dallas; Constance Morella, a former member of Congress from Maryland; Marc Morial, former mayor of New Orleans; Zvi Rafiah, former Israeli diplomat and Swift...
...Twenty years ago Damien Marsic, then 18 and living in Nancy, France, doubted Raelian views. "When I first heard about it, I thought how can people believe such strange things!" he says. Now the 38-year-old University of Alabama at Huntsville doctoral student is a true believer and is even preparing to become a Raelian "guide," or priest...
...would seem that being a Raelian in the Bible Belt of the Deep South could be a lonely experience, but Marsic says it is not. "Every Raelian is integrated into society," he claims. Even so, he knows of only four other Raelians in Alabama, only a handful in Georgia and none in Tennessee. He estimates that there are approximately 1,000 Raelians in the U.S., with concentrations in Florida, California, and the Northeast. Although the small Huntsville group does not schedule regular meetings, they do get together occasionally. "In each region or each city, people just organize themselves as they...
...other side is Strom Thurmond. He will nip this sudden surge of Democracy in the bud. Jack Robinson will go back to the Negro Leagues and his Georgia homestead. Currently the support for Thurmond appears strong only in the Great States of South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi, but we must correct for this by delivering Massachusetts and all of New England as well...
...That's where the Magic Negro angle comes in: Woods is being asked to solve a problem that most blacks don't give a hoot about just because some powerful white people care deeply about it. They include the Times's executive editor, Howell Raines, who grew up in Alabama during the era of resistance to desegregation. Raines' well-known liberal sympathies prompted great suspicion that two articles by sports columnists were spiked because they took issue with the paper's stance. The paper's No. 2 editor, Gerald Boyd, tried to quell the uproar by explaining in a staff...