Word: districters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remembered as the place that turned back Martin Luther King Jr., sending the crusader home empty-handed. Albany sits in the heart of peanut country amid a dusty interweave of farm towns and red clay countryside. It's a world of tradition and habit; both dictate that this district belong to the Democrats. All the same, Albany is headquarters of Dylan Glenn's run for Congress, and if the 28-year-old wins, his election as the district's first Republican will be least among the reasons to cross-tab him in the history books. In a party defined...
What Glenn is highlighting these days is his ties to powerful Republicans, which he argues will give him more swat in Congress than either of his opponents. But that distinction could cost him in a district that is 39% black and deeply suspicious of the G.O.P. Says civil rights hero and Georgia Congressman John Lewis: "The question will be, Are you what we used to call a 'race man'?" Still, Lewis sees something else in the Glenn race: an emerging conservatism among young blacks--or at least a reluctance to sign up blindly with the Democratic Party. "As younger black...
...Glenn wins in November, the person he may need to thank will be Bishop. The Democrat eked out a 54% win over a white Republican two years ago in a district that is two-thirds white, but improved that standing with good constituent service--and an occasional visit to a rattlesnake roundup. "A lot of whites were scared to vote for a black, but Sanford changed all that," agrees R.S. Smith, 65, a white retiree in Bainbridge, looking over at Glenn. "Yeah, I'll give this fella a look...
Indonesia's economy has taken a hard fall, and no level of society has escaped the pain. The population of more than 200 million people has seen per capita income drop from $1,200 to $300 almost overnight. Tinted-glass towers in the business district of what was last year one of Asia's hottest cities for investors now stand virtually empty. Corporations have no way of repaying the $70 billion they borrowed from foreign banks, and much business has simply ceased. At the other end of the economic scale, poor households have no way of paying the escalating prices...
...commandeered by lawless mobs who threatened to set fire to cars that did not hand over cash on demand. "I have never done anything like this before," said Sali, a 27-year-old man who had just taken a television from an electronics store in Jakarta's Tanah Abang district. "But we can't afford to buy anything anymore." The precedents were not good--the last time Indonesia went amok was in 1965: half a million people were killed after an abortive communist coup then-President Sukarno could not control. Suharto used the turmoil to maneuver himself into the leadership...