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...heart of downtown, and visitors can take tours led by people dressed as Confederate (or Union) soldiers. Letters to the local paper still rail against "occupied Atlanta," and a debate continues to rage about whether to take the symbol of Dixie out of the state flag. Want ads solicit old Klan outfits, burned Klan crosses and "other civil rights memorabilia...
...some directly blame Rudenstine for the poor performance of his initiatives. It reflects a persistent lack of effort on the part of the president to solicit donations for central initiatives, according to former provost and Leverett Professor Jerry R. Green...
Bobrick had been hired in 1989 to solicit ads out of his office in New York. At the time he was terminated, he was being paid $12,000 a month as an advance on commissions...
...council was wrong not to solicit the dean's input on their own resolutions before presenting them to him already set in stone. Perhaps Lewis wanted to show them the problems with that way of doing things...
...Michigan law is being used to deter "Johns" from coming into Detroit from the suburbs to solicit prostitutes. According to George Ward, chief assistant prosecutor in Wayne County, the law resulted in the seizure of 2,927 vehicles last year. As for any unwitting wives, Ward asks, "What about the idea that the residents of Sheffield Street are even more innocent, and shouldn't have to put up with the vice market of prostitution?" The Supreme Court, in a decision written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and joined by Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Ginsburg...