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...there's little talk of ousting Dean, whose support is stronger than ever among the Democrats who were largely responsible for putting him there in February. That includes state party chairmen from conservative parts of the country. "He's doing an excellent job," says Wayne Dowdy, party chairman in Mississippi, where, he says, a Dean appearance in April drew 1,200 people ("We've never had half that number before at a state party event") and raised more than $100,000. State Democratic parties have complained for years about being ignored by the national operation in Washington. Since taking office...
Until his body showed up in the Mississippi River, the only trace of Don C. Wiley was his rental car abandoned on the side of a bridge. Wiley, Loeb professor of biochemistry and biophysics, went missing on Nov. 16, 2001, while in Memphis, Tenn., for a scientific conference. The FBI looked into the case on the suspicion that his work might be of interest to terrorists...
...Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature Diana Sorensen, set forth a number of ideas for specific Harvard College Courses, such as “Great River Systems,” a course that would examine the ecology, history, and culture of rivers such as the Mississippi. They also proposed courses with titles such as “Cities and Exchanges,” “Uncertainty,” and “Illness, Health, and Healing...
Halberstam left Vietnam in 1964, and quickly got pulled back to covering the escalating racial violence in the South. He remembers being told by his editors at the Times, “Get your ass down to Mississippi, they’ve killed three kids” in reference to the June 21 murders of three civil rights activists who were registering black voters...
...Mississippi in 1964 was as dangerous as anything I’ve ever been a part of,” he says. “In 1964...the last five years of my life were about being in dangerous places. I was beginning to wonder if I was always going to be scared...