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Americans of all ethnic backgrounds were inspired by Alex Haley's 1977 mini-series Roots, eventually watched by hundreds of millions worldwide. Today a quarter of the 300,000 amateur genealogists who visit the Denver Public Library each year are Hispanic. Ukrainian Americans register inquiries at www.carpatho-rusyn.org and Cajuns can search for their ancestors on a CD-ROM of half a million names, compiled by Acadian genealogist Yvon Cyr. In San Francisco, educator Albert Cheng, who has traced 2,800 years of his family history, leads a program for the Chinese Culture Foundation, which takes groups of Chinese-American youths...
...Haley Barbour, who oversaw the "Republican Revolution" in 1994, and Steve Grossman, who helped in the first re-election of a Democratic president in 52 years, were part of the study group led by IOP Fellow David Pryor, a former U.S. senator and governor of Arkansas...
...know what it is like to pay a minimum wage, Haley," Grossman said. "I run a business. [An increased] minimum wage is not going to undermine the wonderful growth that we have had for the last six and a half years...
...Crimson capitalized on several mistakes bythe Elis and used some timely hitting to scorefour runs in the bottom half of the first andthree more in the second. LaSovage started thingsin the first when she reached base after lining ahit off Yale third baseman Haley Flynn's glove andstealing second...
...some states that have sued the company, including New York, Microsoft has retained operatives with ties to the attorneys general to argue against the litigation. Former Republican Party chairman Haley Barbour is arguing Microsoft's position with Republican Governors. The company's other lobbyists include four former members of Congress--Republicans Rod Chandler and Vin Weber and Democrats Tom Downey and Vic Fazio--and former aides to Senate majority leader Trent Lott and House majority leader Dick Armey...