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Protest from the pulpit is as old as apartheid. One of the first clerics to speak out against the system was Trevor Huddleston, a white British clergyman who, while working in a black shantytown outside Johannesburg in the early 1950s, openly condemned the South African government's policies. Now an Anglican bishop in Britain, the 72-year-old priest remains active, heading a London-based antiapartheid movement. On the front lines, in the meantime, new faces have emerged to continue the struggle...
Other fellows, who hail from a range of political backgrounds, include former U.S. Rep. Brad Carson, Associated Press political writer Ron Fournier, former ambassador Vicki Huddleston, National Security Council member Tom Newcomb, U.S. News and World Report political editor Roger Simon, and Maggie Williams, who served as chief of staff to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton...
...even made it home. Holed up in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, many of the new Somali M.P.s - and even the new President himself - privately say they will not return without the protection of African Union (A.U.) troops. "It's sort of the Wild West there," says Colonel Craig Huddleston, Chief of Staff for the U.S.-led task force for East Africa. "Extremists of all flavors can feel relatively free to be themselves." When the government does return - Ghedi has said he plans to visit Mogadishu in early February - the task it faces is huge. Civil war and the lack...
...down a classroom of unruly kids who would rather badger a rookie instructor about her sex life than learn about George Washington. "At first it was like a riot every day. I had to call the dean and security just to get the class to calm down," says Gary Huddleston, a former lawyer from Houston who teaches science at a high school in Brooklyn. "I had no idea how demanding it would be." Sandra Feldman, president of the American Federation of Teachers, says new teachers should have about a year of classroom training with a mentor...
...down a classroom of unruly kids who would rather badger a rookie instructor about her sex life than learn about George Washington. "At first it was like a riot every day. I had to call the dean and security just to get the class to calm down," says Gary Huddleston, a former lawyer from Houston who teaches science at a high school in Brooklyn. "I had no idea how demanding it would be." Sandra Feldman, president of the American Federation of Teachers, says new teachers should have about a year of classroom training with a mentor...