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When Mark Neumann was a math teacher, he'd lecture on the arithmetic of the federal deficit to his high school class in Janesville, Wisconsin. Hauling out charts and graphs, he'd explain the atrociousness of the situation, how the budget crisis had to be solved, and why America had to live within its means. Last week Neumann was again hauling out the math and the charts and the graphics, but this time as a freshman Congressman and real-life budget cutter returning home from a historic budget-busting session of the House of Representatives. How would this play...
Robb's diminution of the Klan's charter has not gone down well. "Thom Robb is a poor example of a Klansman. He comes off as a young Republican, not as a racialist," says David Neumann, 40, an auto-plant machinist who heads the Michigan chapter of the Knights. "He goes to great lengths not to say anything controversial that might alienate people from giving him money." In April, Ed Novak, born Ed Melkonian and an ex-lieutenant of Robb's, started a rival Klan out of Chicago. According to Klanwatch, based in Montgomery, Alabama, Novak's Federation of Klans...
...Neumann, he and the Klan leaders of Indiana and Illinois led a walkout from the Knights last month. This weekend they will stage an old- fashioned K.K.K. rally in Lafayette, Indiana, complete with robes and hoods. Neumann, with the blessing of his associates, has assumed the title Robb dislikes: Imperial Wizard. The rebel triumvirate maintains that most of the Knights are now with them...
Robb, who is based in Arkansas, insists the insurgents have taken no more than 15 of his members. He claims that Neumann and his accomplices, Troy Murphey of North Salem, Indiana, and Dennis McGiffen of Wood River, Illinois, do not have the standing to vote him out of office. He threw them out of the Knights immediately after they ousted him. "As far as I'm concerned this is just a blip on the radar screen," says Robb, 48. "It's like me putting out a letter dismissing Bill Clinton as President...
...second game, with nemesis Brown, turned out to be a classic defensive struggle. Harvard goalie Danny Oakes and Brown netminder Kevin Neumann refused to succumb to both sides' offensive pressure...