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...perspective with which he credits the "traitors, miscreants and goons" of the South. Yes, the confederate flag is an inappropriate symbol for the Georgia state flag. Gov. Zell Miller, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the majority of those whom I know in Atlanta area all agree with this portion of Brown's tirade. His broad generalizations and prejudicial attacks, however, undermine his argument. Claiming that "the crimes of the Nazi state were perhaps more shocking than those of the Confederacy" (italics mine), and even then only because the Germans were more educated and enlightened than those backward Southerners, Brown shows...
AUTOS ONLINE The Internet and private services such as America Online and CompuServe contain countless sites devoted to cars and trucks. But this profusion is easily divided into two main groups. One consists of hundreds, if not thousands, of pages on the World Wide Web, the multimedia portion of the Internet, that are loaded with facts and figures about every conceivable car or truck. Want to know how much a dealer pays for that 1996 Honda Accord you've been eyeing? Or what kind of gasoline mileage it gets? Just log onto Edmund Publications http:www.enews.com/magazines/edmunds) which gives...
...bottom portion of this bracket is the toughest of any to predict. The Tulsa Golden Hurricane have the most tournament experience of any of these teams, and forward Shea Seals is a third team All-American. Don't be surprised if Tulsa beats an erratic Louisville team...
...corporations to pool their workers' contributions. "With 401(k)s, regardless of what the market does, people are plowing in their money week after week, fortnight after fortnight, month after month," notes Robert Brusca, chief economist of Nikko Securities, a Wall Street firm. Once a worker designates a certain portion of his pay to be set aside and put into stocks, the 401(k) keeps investing the same amount unless the worker changes his contribution. And such investors take longer to change their mind than those who play the market directly...
Listen to the voices of children. Children are taught, disciplined, analyzed and tested, but rarely heard. Children who are seen but not heard will lose their voices. We live in a social and political culture that ignores a significant portion of its members. Young people must be seen and heard and our national agenda must be expanded to include the voices of its youngest citizens. Margo Strom, founder of the Facing History and Ourselves Project in Boston, argued correctly that "youth who are not allowed to be resources will become problems...