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...soon enough, Lambert and others in town would be laboring to understand how the national epidemic of violence against black churches could have found its way to their little town. "You sit and watch it happen in other states, and it feels foreign until it comes home," says Steve Lambert. "We believe it is local, but what could they have been thinking?" The 50-some federal agents who swept down on the town while the embers were still warm quickly determined that both fires were indeed the result of arson. (They also confirmed a failed arson attempt...
...enjoyed a lack of tension between white and black communities. In the 1940s and into the 1950s, children of both races played and ate together, and Kossuth achieved legal integration without the horrible spasms that wrenched most of the South. It was always a point of pride to Linda Lambert, the wife of Kossuth's mayor, that 109 years ago her ancestors donated the land on which black ex-sharecroppers built the Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church--a big, beautiful edifice that housed a $10,000 baby-grand piano, the congregation's pride...
Last Monday night, however, the Lamberts' phone rang: Mount Pleasant was ablaze. Lambert's husband Steve, who is not only the mayor but also chief of the Kossuth volunteer fire department, rushed to the local fire barn and discovered to his astonishment that the engines were already gone, to another black church, Central Grove Missionary Baptist, which was burning a few miles away. Finally, the county fire department arrived, but by then, Mount Pleasant was lost. As the roof caved in and the steeple crashed to the ground, Linda Lambert glanced over at Sheriff's Deputy Billy Dilworth...
...Higbie, Ivan C. K. Ho, John E. Howbert, Richard J. Hughes, Sarah E. Jackson, Ramesh O. Johari, Andrea E. Johnson, Kevin B. Jones, William M. Kaminsky, Nina W. Kang, Fotini V. Kotopodes, Scott Y. Kim, Jeremy D. Kleiner, Jason E. Kolman, Ivy A. Ku, Jeffrey C. Kuo, David A. Lambert, Brian A. Lanman, Daniel T. Larson, Jeffrey C. Lau, Sandra Y. Lee, Vivian M. Lee, Tamara E. Levin, Joseph I. Levinson, Wilson J. Liao, Jenny S. Lian, Eric C. Liu, Franklin LIu, Kenneth Y. Liu, Amanda J. Lockshin, Jay P. Makadia, Michele A. Manahan, David W. Marcus, Joshua B. Maraks...
...largest U.S. drug companies, Warner-Lambert, pleaded guilty to lying to the Food and Drug Administration about its product-testing methods and agreed to pay a $10 million fine. According to the fda, the company covered up the fact that certain drugs were not chemically stable and lost their potency over time, which in turn meant that patients got lower dosages than they should have...