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...there was Bill Clinton last week, in Cranston, Rhode Island, at a "town meeting" -- his favorite environment -- with two perky television hosts and friendly questioners. And he was seized with an outbreak of Potomac paranoia...
MUSEUMS: Bombs Along the Potomac...
These upheavals were slow to arrive for the 350 colored people in Gates' hometown of Piedmont, nestled in a sleepy hollow between the Allegheny Mountains and the Potomac River Valley. At first folks simply watched the speeches and marches on television. When the effects of the civil rights movement finally did come to the town in the 1960s, the impact was ambiguous. Blacks welcomed expanded job opportunities and an end to humiliating reminders of where -- quite literally -- they stood: they were now allowed to sit down in white restaurants. But integration also meant that the nurturing institutions blacks had created...
Disney may succeed where the Grand Army of the Potomac failed...
...victims or lowlifes: while some come from straitened circumstances, one is a Berkeley-educated attorney, others are students at a selective high school for the performing arts, and one is a former seminarian who does managerial tasks at his church. All were recruited in the isolated ghetto across the Potomac, the "east of river community...