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...Dean, about to become the new leader of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), will occupy a special perch last held by Haley Barbour, the current governor of Mississippi and Republican chairman following Bill Clinton’s first presidential victory. A wily lobbyist, Reagan adviser and honeysuckle political hit-man, Barbour rose to the challenge of a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and became an indispensable part of setting the winning 1993 and 1994 GOP strategy of hardline anti-Clinton opposition...
...JUST TESTIFIED IN THE FEDERAL RACKETEERING CASE AGAINST THE MAJOR CIGARETTE COMPANIES. WHY IS THAT TRIAL SO IMPORTANT? The accountability is now shifting from the state to the federal level. It's kind of a capstone. The states, with the exception of Mississippi, Maine and Arkansas, are a disappointment. Most have used their settlement money for various things other than [educating] children...
...minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Alec Soth has had quite a year. In March, the 35-year-old American photographer's pictures of life on the Mississippi River were the hit of the Whitney Biennial in New York City. In June, he was made a nominee of Magnum Photos - the first step to becoming a full member of the prestigious co-operative, and the photographic equivalent of landing a junior fellowship at Oxford University. Then, in August, his book...
...deaths of James Chaney, 21, a black Mississippian, and two white New Yorkers, Michael Schwerner, 24, and Andrew Goodman, 20, came to symbolize white resistance to the "Freedom Summer" campaign to register black voters. The case shocked much of the country and later inspired the 1988 Gene Hackman film Mississippi Burning. Yet neither Killen, called the "Preacher" by locals, nor other Klansmen ever faced state murder charges. And most, including Killen, beat federal civil rights--violation charges in a 1967 trial in which one member of the all-white jury insisted she could never convict a man of God like...
Today, 40 years after the crime, Killen's sympathizers are a decided minority. A local television-news poll showed almost 70% support for his arrest, triggered by a series of articles in the Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Miss., which in 1998 dug up Bowers' incriminating interview. It took the Mississippi attorney general's office six years to bring charges after reopening the case in 1999, in part because some of the evidence had to be rebuilt, but many feel it was just a matter of time. "There was simply too much pressure" to follow through and avoid the impression that...