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...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 for so long by its whiteness, Glenn is black. While most black Republicans complain...
...Glenn would be like a centennial bookend: the last Southern black Republican in Congress was North Carolinian George White, who left office in 1901. In the next 100 years, four other black Republicans would go to Congress. But for the most part the G.O.P., which once commanded black support as the party of Lincoln, earned the opposite image as the party on the wrong side of civil rights. With this precedent, it is startling that Glenn stands as a favored G.O.P. son. Two months before the primary, he has raised $360,000, most of it in fund raisers thrown from...
Such backing is partly the result of Glenn's decades of networking. Even his most intimate friendships seem to have served a purpose. "My wife's cousin's son is Dylan's best friend," Cochran explains when asked how Glenn got his first job in Cochran's office. Pictures of George Bush, Newt Gingrich and other G.O.P. stalwarts stare down from the wall of Glenn's headquarters. But the support is not just the wages of bonhomie. Republicans know that as America becomes more ethnically diverse, they must attract more minority voters to retain the majority. "This is not about...
...Mitchell may have the Titanic of drag musicals. Since opening on Valentine's Day, Hedwig has attracted a mix of uptown theatergoers, kids from the club scene and celebrities like Goldie Hawn, Glenn Close and David Bowie. The show just won an Outer Critics Circle award for best off-Broadway musical, a concept album is in the works, and there's already talk of a movie. Couldn't happen to a nicer girly...
...Resident Tutor and Race Relations Tutor, Winthrop House --Lisa Clayton Robinson '92 Assistant Senior Tutor and Race Relations Tutor, Winthrop House --Nicky Sheats Resident Tutor and Race Relations Tutor, Eliot House --Shirley E. Thompson '92 Resident Tutor, Adams House --Nana A.Y. Twum-Danso '94 Resident Tutor, Cabot House --Glenn Wong Resident Tutor, Eliot House --Channing Yu '93 Resident Tutor, Lowell House...