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...Friday, March 31, and an especially dark, warm night has closed in on the Embassy Suites in Montgomery, Alabama. The hotel stands next to Union Station, the city’s railway stop turned swanky visitors’ center, stocked with promo maps that show tourists where to find the Rosa Parks Museum and Library or the house where Martin Luther King Jr. lived while preaching at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church...
...stopped at a gas station,” says Lake, “and were threatened and followed—pursued—by two white men in a truck who wouldn’t sell us gas, and that made everything seem a lot more real than the conference...
...office has spent $400,000 on an informational ad campaign, using change-of-address lists to get voter information to evacuees. He promised 300 employees at polling sites on election day and has spent $50,000 on signs to direct people to other sites if their usual polling station was devastated by Katrina and had to be moved. "Let me tell you something: If this doesn?t work, if this is not a valid, good, legitimate election, nobody?s gonna have to sue the state of Louisiana," Ater told TIME. He said he?d go to the courts himself...
...friend working as a system administrator for the state-owned Sberbank. They pay him $145 a month. He has no contract, no nothing. This is standard practice in Russia. So the French students' problems do not really apply here. Marianna Lorusso 28, producer for a youth-targeted satellite TV station, Rome I'd be willing to accept that it might take three or five years to find a secure job, but by all accounts I shouldn't expect it for at least 20 years. It's pretty depressing. It means there are certain things you can't count...
MATT REDMON College Station, Texas...