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...book a hoax? Yes, says Dan T. Carter, a history professor at Emory University. In an op-ed page piece in the New York Times last week, Carter charged that the late Forrest Carter was not a Cherokee at all. Instead, he was Asa Earl Carter, whom the professor describes as a "Ku Klux Klan terrorist, right-wing radio announcer, home-grown American fascist and anti-Semite...
...allegation that the novelist and the racist were one and the same was swiftly disputed by the author's executor and Asa Earl Carter's brother Doug. The latter did acknowledge that Asa wrote speeches for Alabama's George Wallace, including the infamous lines "Segregation now. Segregation tomorrow. Segregation forever!" But old friends point out that Asa and Forrest Carter looked alike, used the same address and were the same age. Perhaps the book should be retitled The Mystery of Little Tree...
...offers free treatment to the poorest citizens, many low-income working people are not fully insured. Moreover, the everyday struggle to survive often takes precedence over health care. "For many people the question may be 'Do I go to work today, or do I see the doctor?' " says Dr. Earl Scott, medical director of the Sydenham Clinic, part of a network of free clinics in Harlem...
...report, aired on a local news program in Detroit this spring, trumpeted the success of the drug Xanax in treating panic attacks. Former Houston Oiler Earl Campbell appeared in the segment and poignantly described his battle with the psychiatric disorder. A useful little news spot? Actually, it was more of a commercial. Upjohn, which manufactures Xanax, produced the video segment, paid Campbell for his performance and sent the tape ready-made to TV stations around the U.S. as part of a campaign to peddle its product...
...first black Supreme Court Justice, Marshall was a man resolved to continue the revolution he had helped to set in motion. But his 24 years on the court were increasingly frustrating. The last Justice chosen by a Democratic President, he joined the liberal court of Chief Justice Earl Warren in its waning years. Over the next two decades, as a succession of Republican appointees were named to the court, Marshall found himself pushed into the role of perennial dissenter. In the term just ended -- and several before it -- he wrote not a single important majority decision...