Word: birmingham
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These are difficult days for Birmingham, Ala. As two of the four men charged in a fatal 1963 church bombing are finally called to trial for their alleged crime, the city once known as "Bombingham" is forced to confront one of the most painful wounds of the civil rights...
Carry Me Home's main contribution is a massively detailed account of decades of unseemly collaboration between the genteel "Big Mules" who controlled Birmingham's industrial economy and the blue-collar terrorists whom they employed to do their dirty work against not only blacks but also unionists and anyone else who posed a threat to the established order. Rather than issue orders directly to Klan-connected thugs like Robert Chambliss, the organizer of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, the Big Mules used intermediaries like public-safety commissioner Eugene (Bull) Connor. His brutal tactics produced the shocking television pictures that...
...current book, however, delves more deeply into the nuances of the movement era than Diane McWhorter's Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Movement (Simon & Schuster; 701 pages; $35). For McWhorter, this is not only history but also autobiography. A native of Birmingham, she was 10 in 1963, about the same age as the four little black girls who were blown to pieces in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. But, as she writes, she was a born and bred member of the city's white upper crust "growing...
...professor Thomas Berg, who teaches courses in constitutional law and religious freedom at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., sees this seemingly unlikely liberal-conservative alliance against Bush's initiative as a reemergence of an old trend. "Historically, Protestant conservatives were very suspicious of government intervention in religious proceedings, because they worried the government would try to dictate doctrine. And liberal groups, who favored secularization, agreed with them, in terms of their purpose, anyway," Berg told TIME.com. "It was only about 30 years ago, particularly as once-trusted bastions of low-grade generalized Christian ethos, like public schools, became more secular...
...every scientist subscribes to this ominous philosophy. Greg Pence, professor of bioethics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, predicts that people will get more comfortable with the idea of cloning as time passes. "Science fiction movies have taught us that this technology must create mutants, but in fact, any problems we're facing are merely technical," Pence told TIME.com. "And fear of technical problems is just masking other problems people have with the idea of cloning...