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...Kerrey grew up the third of seven children in a quiet working-class community on the edge of Lincoln, Nebraska. At the University of Nebraska, he partied hard and nearly flunked officer training. But he was good at his other studies and finished the five-year pharmacy program in four. Still, life behind the drug counter had started to look like drudgery. He once recalled how a farmer came in looking for a treatment for the "sniffles." Annoyed at the triviality of the man's complaint, Kerrey said, "Try this" and wiped his sleeve across his nose...
However, the Rev. Abraham Lincoln Woods, president of the Birmingham chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was more positive about the result. "It makes a statement around the nation and the world. If a guilty person can go without being brought to justice it means that the life of a black is not as valuable as a white...
...Cabinet Room. "I love this painting," he said moments later, unspooling the history of a Norman Rockwell that hangs next to the Oval Office door. In the Roosevelt Room, he told how F.D.R. used the space to house his aquariums. Down the hall he expounded on a print showing Lincoln at the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation. Throughout, he was a manic bundle of energy. Near the end of the tour, Glade Curtis, an obstetrician, had to laugh. "Karl was always really into politics and history," Curtis said. "And he was always a nerd...
Like slavery, for instance? The same issue of the magazine that ran the Ashcroft interview had an ad for the Southern Heritage Association, asking, "Is the war over? Perhaps, but the cause lives on." Another ad, for a book about Lincoln, began, "If you think Bill Clinton has a character problem, take a look at...Lincoln." But rather than judge it from afar, I decide to drop by Southern Partisan, based in downtown Columbia, to find out who these people...
RULED NEGLIGENT. CHARLES LAUX, former sheriff of Richardson County, Neb.; for not offering protective custody to Teena Brandon, a 21-year-old cross-dressing woman whose rape and murder inspired the movie Boys Don't Cry; by the Nebraska Supreme Court; in Lincoln...