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...what some claim was the first genocide of the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of Armenians were driven from their homes and killed. Tens of thousands emigrated to Russia, the Middle East, France and the U.S. There are currently less than 65,000 Armenians living in Turkey itself. Turks reject the accusation of genocide, stating that Armenians were among the many civilians to die in one of the most violent periods of human history...
...Confederate (some say racist) Southern Partisan magazine. "I repudiate racist organizations, racist ideas," he said. "[The] question is, will people have confidence in me, and I assure them that they will, because I will serve and I will serve well. I will enforce the law. I reject racism. I reach out to people, all people...
...their attacks. "This kind of outrage in breadth and depth and diversity--I can't remember anything like it," said Hilary Shelton, director of the N.A.A.C.P.'s Washington bureau. But in private, Senate Democrats were clear that, absent some shocking new smoking gun, they weren't likely to actually reject Ashcroft, Chavez or Norton. In a Senate divided evenly between the parties, only a simple majority is required for confirmation, meaning that Democrats would have to achieve astonishing unity (and find one Republican defector) to vote down one of the nominees...
Ashcroft defenders say it was this decision that swung moderate Republicans against White and led them to reject him for the federal court. They dispute the charge that Ashcroft is a racist, noting that as Missouri Governor he appointed the first African-American judge to the court of appeals and signed into law the holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. But he also accepted an honorary degree in 1999 from Bob Jones University, which until recently forbade interracial dating, and defended Confederate leaders as "patriots" in Southern Partisan magazine, a pro-Confederacy publication that he praised for helping...
...firms--from pioneering Affymetrix to the upstart Incyte Genomics, based in Palo Alto, Calif.--help pharmaceutical companies identify drug targets found exclusively in diseased cells. Others, like Phase-1 Molecular Toxicology of Santa Fe, N.M., sell chips that test how chemicals affect gene expression, allowing pharmaceutical firms to quickly reject candidate drugs too toxic to be worth pursuing...