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...they built their company. Microbreweries had their own version of the dotcom boom and bust in the early 1990s, when it seemed that a brew pub was opening (and soon closing) on every corner. The ones that survived "were willing to do the nitty-gritty hard work," says Ray Daniels, marketing director for craft beer at the Brewers Association, an industry trade group...
...push that succeeded in 1983 in establishing a federal holiday in his honor, founded the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change and traveled the world in support of civil rights issues, including same-sex marriage. King was criticized for her efforts to secure a new trial for James Earl Ray, who was convicted of assassinating her husband. (She believed, as did some others, that Ray was probably innocent and King's murder was the work of several conspirators.) Her primary legacy, though, was in turning her husband's mission into her own, saying "Hate is too great a burden...
...Mayor Ray Nagin's call for a "chocolate New Orleans" sounded pretty tasty to a Louisiana man who has sold some 3,000 WILLY NAGIN AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY shirts at imnotchocolate.com...
Before Mayor Ray Nagin made his now notorious comment about New Orleans as a "chocolate" city on Martin Luther King Day, the former businessman was in surprisingly good shape to win re-election in April. Despite repeated missteps since Hurricane Katrina hit five months ago, he still had backing from both whites and African Americans in the city, a splintered opposition and a tidy campaign treasure chest with over $1 million...
...Jeff Flake, a conservative and a Shadegg supporter, says, "It's a dynamic situation"--one made more unpredictable by the fact that the election will be by secret ballot. That means all those vote commitments may be meaningless, and anything could happen. "This is high drama," says Illinois Republican Ray LaHood. As if the G.O.P. hasn't already had enough of that...