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Some might have said that Mass. State Rep. Byron Rushing (D-Boston) was crazy to run for House Speaker against incumbent Thomas M. Finneran (D-Mattapan). His foe was, after all, the same political boss who has taken a thoroughly dictatorial approach to his rule of the Massachusetts House over the last six years—the same speaker who has made sure those who so much as vote against legislation he supports are banished to obscure committees and cramped offices...
...author who knows what it's like to have multitudes cheering you on - or howling for your head - it's Rushdie. Born in India to a Muslim family, educated in Britain and now living in New York, he's the closest thing to a literary rock star since Byron. Much of the civilized world rose to his defense when the fatwa was imposed in 1989, though, as he notes here, a shocking number of people blamed him for provoking his would-be killers. When the death sentence was lifted after nine years, he found himself courted by statesmen, entertainers...
...Prejudice still exists through Mississippi, however, particularly in rural areas. But even there tolerance has taken root. During the Clinton years, it was rural juries of both races that convicted Byron De La Beckwith, the white assassin of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. (Another multiracial jury recently convicted the white church arsonists that had terrorized the state.) Earlier this year, Myrlie Evers, the widow of Medgar, announced that she was donating her husband's NAACP papers, personal correspondence and assorted memorabilia to the State Archive in Mississippi. "That's where his paper's belong," she said. "He would be pleased...
...large part through careful recruitment and training. The airline received 200,000 resumes last year but hired only 6,000 workers--making it more selective than Harvard. "Attitude is critical; skills are not," says Lorraine Grubbs-West, director at the People Department. (Southwest doesn't use the word employee.) Byron Woods, 22, a customer-service-agent trainee at Southwest, isn't much bothered that he is getting only half the $18 an hour he once made at United. That airline, he says, "trained me for eight hours on how to use the computer, then just threw me into...
Massachusetts State Representative Byron Rushing said that he felt the current administration aimed for the “Americanization” of the world...