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...China. They're currently on show at a tatty museum on the outskirts of Xi'an in a display proudly titled "The Special Exhibition of Returned Pottery Figures of Western Han Dynasty from America." Pointedly, each statuette still has a tag from Sotheby's attached to its feet. Li Ku, vice director of the museum, rejoices in the figurines' return. "Looking at these figures, I feel like my family has come home at last," he says...
...preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.” In addition to defending the rights of gays, blacks and women, the ACLU also defends groups with bigoted views, such as the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazis...
...lonely stretch of road outside Birmingham, Ala., perched on the handlebars of his brother's bicycle, he was happily unaware of the carnage downtown. It was Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963. At 10:22 that morning, four black girls had been killed by a dynamite bomb set by the Ku Klux Klan at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. The church was a focal point of Birmingham's civil rights turmoil that year, but that unrest hadn't touched Virgil and his coal-mining family, who lived in a modest, all-black suburb and rarely even saw white people. All Virgil...
There is no need to fear or purge Islam. Rather, we should recognize and separate the extreme elements found in each faith. If Christians can reject Ku Klux Klan ideology as a usurpation of biblical teaching, why can't Muslims similarly reject al-Qaeda and its usurpation of the teachings of the Koran? The problem has never been faith. It has always been the interpretation and application of that faith. MRIDUL RAHMAN Austin, Texas...
...leck-tronic eye." But due to his fierce opposition to the Iraq war, Byrd at 85 has become an Internet icon with a rash of young and liberal admirers, which is ironic given that Byrd fought civil rights in the '60s and, as is often noted, briefly joined the Ku Klux Klan. Once known as a hawk ("I was the last man out of Vietnam," he says), Byrd has become the Senate's new Paul Wellstone...