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...literally born into a life of activism, but Yolanda King, the eldest child of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, arrived in Montgomery, Ala., just two weeks before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus there. A social activist, motivational speaker and actress--she played Parks in the 1978 mini-series King--Yolanda was the most visible family member during this year's Martin Luther King Day--the first since her mother's death last year. She collapsed, of a suspected heart problem, after giving a speech in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Movements are born in white heat," says the great religious historian Martin Marty, but once the heat cools, fissures show up. "Leaders make mistakes and have to apologize. You don't get all you dreamed of, and settle for less. To be charitable: you also might mature some." The movement Falwell had helped create grew so large it spilled out in directions no one could foresee or control, encompassing work on global warming and the crisis in Darfur. Young Evangelicals still have their heroes and their causes, but those were less likely to be Falwell and Pat Robertson fighting abortion...
...John Martin, who for 26 years oversaw the Justice Department's counterintelligence division, says he's less worried about the possible divulgence of classified information than he is about Gonzales' and Card's attempt to override Comey, who was acting Attorney General at the time. "That's part of the bad judgment," Martin says of the potential disclosure, but more troubling is that "horrible judgment was demonstrated on the part of Gonzales and Card because they both knew or should have known that the Attorney General while he was so incapacitated had delegated his power to his deputy Jim Comey...
Sophomore attack Kaitlin Martin and junior defender Lauren Bobzin were the lone Harvard selections to the conference’s All-Ivy teams, announced yesterday by the league. Both players were second-team selections, as voted by the league’s coaches...
...Martin tallied 39 goals and 47 total points for the Crimson this year, and her 2.53 goals per game average was fourth-best in the Ivy League in 2007. She also averaged 2.93 points per contest, good for eighth in the Ivies...