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What could explain this disconnect? Certainly not the real experiences of the present-day Delta, where racial integration was far more advanced than the plantations would suggest. As I drove from Memphis, Tenn., to Vicksburg and New Orleans, La., small details suggested that perhaps this was the New South after all--like the fact that all three cities have black mayors. Or the businesses where whites worked alongside blacks. Or the brand-new roads and schools serving mostly black small towns. The South being marketed for the tourists was far more reactionary than the real South just out the door...
Stewart, who was flown first-class to Los Angeles, put up in a hotel suite and paid to appear, was prepared to talk about campus conservatism and the "disconnect between older and younger feminists." However, after events in Congress that day, the topics of the show ere changed to gun control and displaying the Ten Commandments in classrooms--two issues on which Stewart does not consider herself particularly conservative...
Stewart, who was flown first class to LosAngeles, put up in a hotel suite and paid toappear, was prepared to talk about campusconservatism and the "disconnect between older andyounger feminists...
Such an environmental disconnect may not be much of a mystery. Environmentalists complain that over the past two years industry groups have launched a coordinated advertising campaign to torpedo the 1997 Kyoto treaty, which requires industrial nations to reduce greenhouse emissions. More than $13 million has been spent on ads to block ratification of the treaty by the U.S. Senate. "The purpose of the ads was to convince most Americans that there isn't a problem or that it's too expensive to fix," says National Environmental Trust spokesman Peter Kelly...
...only in the courts but in jails by prison guards, the possibilities for abuse are practically endless. The U.S. loves to lecture countries such as China and Malaysia on their human rights records, yet unlike most other Western countries it still has the death penalty. Is there a disconnect there? Maybe, maybe not. Stun belts, too, have their justifications, but the image -- the wave of the judge's hand, the bailiff and his remote control, the instantly prostrate, urinating defendant -- is enough to give any supposedly civilized democracy a bit of a p.r. problem...