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...swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator. As a law professor and civil rights lawyer and as an African American, I am fully aware of his limited views on race. Anyone who actually reads the Emancipation Proclamation knows it was more a military document than a clarion call for justice. Scholars tell us too that Lincoln wasn't immune from political considerations and that his temperament could be indecisive and morose...
Today, 40 years after the crime, Killen's sympathizers are a decided minority. A local television-news poll showed almost 70% support for his arrest, triggered by a series of articles in the Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Miss., which in 1998 dug up Bowers' incriminating interview. It took the Mississippi attorney general's office six years to bring charges after reopening the case in 1999, in part because some of the evidence had to be rebuilt, but many feel it was just a matter of time. "There was simply too much pressure" to follow through and avoid the impression that...
With a 6-0 decision over Buffalo’s Dang Gingerich, Baria almost found another route to play further. But the path was blocked by Frank Edgar of Clarion, who defeated Baria in his next match with a score...
Freshman Jonathan Butler met a similar fate in the 174-lb. bracket, losing to Chris Goings of Clarion by a 7-2 decision and pinned by Columbia’s Sven Hafemeister...
...Telemarketers in Iraq A continuing stream of resentments is turning Iraqis against the U.S. [May 10]. That's what happens when one country invades another with no clarion call from a significant portion of its population, not even from those who are being persecuted. How lucky for the U.S. that in the 19th century there was no nation strong enough?or presumptive enough?to attack our country to rid it of the dreadful scourge of slavery. Without having been asked, America is inflicting its desires and aspirations upon others. The U.S. might be likened to a telemarketer, and before...