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This year we have seen many racially charged incidents that were deemed either aberrations or coincidences. Some examples are the denigrating remarks of Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker, the killing of unarmed blacks in New York City and the racial profiling practiced by police departments across the nation. These racist acts no longer seem so unusual or exceptional when placed in context with the tenacity by which some southern states still cling to the cherished image of the antebellum South. Until the people of South Carolina admit that whistling Dixie isn't worth dividing the Union, South Carolina will remain...
...Lazaro Gonzalez's lawyers say the law doesn't compel him to physically hand the boy over, and it's now widely assumed that the only way this is going to end is when the feds go in and fetch Elian." Although the government has delayed action pending an Atlanta appeals court ruling - expected Wednesday - on who speaks for Elian, it already has the legal authority to seize him from his Miami relatives and return him to his father. Last Thursday's injunction simply stipulated that the boy not be returned to Cuba before the completion of the appeals process...
Seven months after JonBenet Ramsey's murder, with the investigation going nowhere, police detectives in her hometown of Boulder, Colo., took an extraordinary gamble. They flew to Atlanta, Ga., where her parents had moved after the killing, and drove to the suburb where the children's beauty-pageant queen was buried. On the eve of what would have been her seventh birthday, Aug. 6, 1997, the investigators broke into St. James Episcopal Cemetery with the help of a Georgia state cop who picked the lock on the gate. The Boulder detectives then planted a hidden microphone and camera...
...wearing a red turtleneck, as Patsy told detectives, why was her body found clad in a white top? Thomas writes that frustrated Boulder detectives in 1998 lined up a technical specialist with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and planned to have him break into the Ramsey's Atlanta home and install hidden listening devices. But the idea was nixed by Boulder police supervisors...
...with his father pending the outcome of the latest court battle, which the government expects will take at least three or four days. Although the Miami relatives lost a battle to bring the matter to a state court Thursday, the setback was overshadowed by their victory in the Atlanta appeals court, which once again moves the struggle over Elian's fate off the streets of Miami and into a courtroom...