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They are the former staff of The Southern Courier, a civil rights newspaper started in 1965 by two Harvard juniors. Many of them haven’t been south of the Mason-Dixon since 1968, when the paper put out its last issue. Some recognize each other, while others give quizzical looks as they reintroduce themselves to old friends. They have returned to Montgomery, the paper’s old headquarters, for a weekend reunion...
Political pundits have long discounted former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's presidential prospects, claiming that his particular brand of tough-talking, socially moderate conservatism would never play south of the Mason-Dixon Line. But Rudy has never been one to listen to conventional wisdom, and lately at least, he has been turning up the heat in southern conservative political circles...
...success of the church in the South could be influential beyond the Mason-Dixon Line. Southern Catholicism "is changing the nature of the church in America," says Patrick McHenry, 29, a Republican who last month became Charlotte's first Catholic Congressman. "We adhere to a truer and purer view of Catholicism." Roman Catholics, still the largest religious denomination in the U.S., at 65 million strong, will debate what "truer and purer" means. But one thing seems certain: Southern Catholics, influenced in no small degree by their morally hard-line Protestant neighbors, as well as the strong piety of Latin America...
...Following Halley's suggestion, explorers- including, in 1761 and '69, Jeremiah Dixon and Charles Mason, who later surveyed the Mason-Dixon line, and, in 1769, James Cook-headed for remote regions, above, to see the transits that occurred in those years. Unfortunately, observers had to know their precise longitude and latitude, which were hard to measure at the time. As a result, astronomers couldn't calculate the distance from Earth to the sun with much accuracy...
...change, it gives Bush and the American Petroleum Institute a nice tool to delay any progress on fighting global warming. Bush officials in the Environmental Protection Agency advocated a deeper look into the science of climate change as a preliminary to policymaking, which most of us north of the Mason-Dixon line know is strictly a stalling technique to protect our GDP from the threat of environmental policies. Now they even have Harvard’s name to help make their case...