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...passion in the media. Distrust exists not because reporters aren't passionate but because they are not dispassionate. Even when their reporting is "accurate," the "facts" seem selectively chosen to further the reporter's personal ideology. Trust is the public's priority--not more passion. ELIZABETH SHOWN MILLS Tuscaloosa, Ala...
Johnny may soon clutch Mom's leg, begging to be taken to Saks. No, he's crying not for the Bruno Magli shoes or credit-card points toward a Disney vacation but for fancy train sets and the latest Legos. In May, Saks--the Birmingham, Ala.--based owner of Saks Fifth Avenue, Parisian and other regional department stores--bought a $5 million stake in upscale toy retailer FAO. Saks plans to add an FAO boutique to 22 of its stores by September and FAO displays in 245 of its locations for the holidays. "FAO should have done this long...
...administrations who played a critical role in the desegregation of public facilities in the South; in Newtown, Conn. As Assistant Attorney General in charge of civil rights, the former antitrust lawyer crafted a truce in 1963 between business owners and civil rights activists in the embattled city of Birmingham, Ala.; helped engineer the admission of the University of Mississippi's first black student, James Meredith; and helped draft and push through the Civil Rights...
...domestic terrorist on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitive list, Rudolph was a suspect in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta and bombings at a gay nightclub and an office complex that housed an abortion clinic, both in Atlanta, and at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala. His skills failed him early Saturday as police in the tiny mountain town of Murphy, N.C., got their...
...tabloid-TV confessionals or presidential tapes or paparazzi pictures, just the mysterious comings and goings in and around the White House. So what did a reporter report? Well, we had the Bay of Pigs, the Berlin Wall, the space race, the Cuban missile crisis and Bull Connor in Birmingham, Ala . Never saw one of the girls in the Cabinet Room interfering with the President on how to handle Vietnam. In that pre-Geraldo world, the Mimis were a nonstory...