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...indigenous youth requires indefatigable vigilance. Estens says there are 20 or 30 key people driving things forward in the Moree community. "There's a lot of horsepower in that group," he says, "and they're getting things done." Zona Moore, who as a teenager joined the Freedom Riders' bus, runs the Moree AES. She's often out speaking to young people. "There's enormous wealth in this town," says Moore, who grew up in Moree's mission. "I ask young people, Don't you want a part of it? I said to some boys the other day, You can have...
...Legacy of a Legend At a school function, I learned of the death of civil-rights pioneer Rosa Parks from an eighth-grade student [Nov. 7]. I was struck by the complexity of God's will in our lives. Could Parks have dreamed, as she rode the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 and refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, that 50 years later a white boy in Texas would speak her name reverently and express regret at her passing? Regina Donnell Azle, Texas...
...Agathokleous Athens Legacy of a Legend At a school function, i learned of the death of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks from an eighth-grade student [Nov. 7]. I was struck by the complexity of God's will in our lives. Could Parks have dreamed, as she rode the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 and refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, that 50 years later a white boy in Texas would speak her name reverently and express regret at her passing? Regina Donnell Azle, Texas, U.S. Fanaticism Is No Answer Your report "Generation Jihad" described...
...paperback of Stephen King's Misery.) Meanwhile, the tourists' disappearance ignites a global media frenzy, which friends back home hope will pressure the junta to find them - and which the junta manipulates to burnish its image. The situation is ripe for satire, and Tan pours it over her tour bus of fools: the television dog-show host who thinks diplomacy is a lot like pooch training, the academic couple who can't stop intellectually one-upping each other, the dangerously do-gooding heiress. Saving Fish from Drowning (the title comes from a Buddhist fisherman's rationalization of his craft) ends...
...transfers worked. Nine years ago, Cornelio Zamora left his home in Zacapoaxtla, Mexico, paying a smuggler $2,500 to take him across the Rio Grande into the U.S. He had been unable to support his wife and four children on the $7 a day he earned as a bus driver. Working as a house painter in San Jose, California, Zamora, 48, now sends about $700 a month home. His wife says she has based all family decisions - where to send the children to school, what house to live in - on Zamora's monthly earnings "on the other side." In migrants...