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...result of its political activities. In any case, younger African Americans are less likely to be in church--and less likely to automatically vote Democratic. "Older voters view it as a sacred responsibility to vote. They're closer to the civil-rights movement," says Democratic Louisiana state senator Cleo Fields. "Younger voters, you have to inspire them...
...centuries ago, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark left St. Louis to explore the new lands acquired in the Louisiana Purchase," George W. Bush said, announcing his desire for a program to send men and women to Mars. "They made that journey in the spirit of discovery ... America has ventured forth into space for the same reasons...
According to incoming fellows committee chair David M. Kaden ’06, the IOP has also offered fellowships to former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, whose father was Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and failed Louisiana gubernatorial candidate Piyush “Bobby” Jindal, one of the Republican Party’s rising stars...
...adult guilt--and not feel like homework? That's the question raised by Caroline, or Change, the most ambitious new musical of New York City's rather dull theater season. Written by Tony Kushner (Angels in America) and partly based on his own childhood, the show is set in Louisiana in 1963 and focuses on the relationship between a black maid and the liberal Jewish family that employs her. At a time when musicals seem to be groping for ways to move beyond campy Broadway fluff without boring an audience to tears, Caroline is a breakthrough. It's a musical...
...when a girl likes another girl." MARCUS MCLAURIN, 7, a Louisiana boy who was scolded and forced to write, "I will never use the word gay in school again," after he told a classmate about his lesbian mother...