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...Despite Ted and Caroline's endorsement of Obama, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kerry Kennedy chose to endorse Clinton. Don't their endorsements merit the same attention as Ted and Caroline's? Your pro-Obama bias is unmistakable. Kate Erskine, Austin, Texas...
...that lynching was likely for civil rights activist James Orange--confined in an Alabama jail after his 1965 arrest during a voter-registration drive--it set in motion the protests and marches that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. An aide and friend to Martin Luther King Jr., Orange was with him the day that King was assassinated. Orange worked for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the AFL-CIO and, most recently, the Martin Luther King Jr. Committee...
Lawrence Lessig, the Stanford legal scholar known for his work in cyber and copyright law, said Tuesday that he was strongly considering a run for Congress, an announcement that comes a week after Harvard cyberlaw professor John G. Palfrey, Jr. ’94 started a “Draft Lessig” movement to encourage him to seek office. Lessig, who left Harvard Law School for its west coast rival in 2000, has developed a loyal following for his attacks on the American copyright law regime, which he blames for stifling creativity and threatening the development of culture. Since...
...there are signs of a generation gap opening up among Texas Latinos. Consider the Lucio family of Brownsville. Eddie Lucio Jr., an advertising executive and state senator, is backing Clinton, but his son and namesake, a newly minted state representative, has endorsed Obama. In some Hispanic communities, half the electorate is under 30, so Obama sees an opportunity. Both he and his star surrogate Senator Edward Kennedy are campaigning in South Texas...
...that are vaguely Woodstockian with smiling faces and young, casually dressed supporters cheering and waving. "We can save the world!" the graphic exclaims. In the Rio Grande Valley, now a booming trade center but once home to shabby migrant labor camps, Clinton is running ads featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the grandson of United Farm Workers icon Cesar Chavez. And the aging lion of the Democratic Party, U.S. Senator Teddy Kennedy, has been holding rallies on college campuses in South Texas rousing young voters with a vigorous version of "Jalisco," a popular mariachi song that has recorded almost...