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...azaleas are in bloom in Metairie, a neatly landscaped New Orleans suburb where conservatives vastly outnumber liberals and the lush estates of the wealthy border the trim wood-and-stucco bungalows of the middle class. But there was a deeper shade of red last week on the faces of national Republican leaders over what the residents of Metairie, who populate Louisiana's 81st legislative district, had wrought. Some 78% of the district's 21,464 registered voters, only 52 of whom are black, had turned out to give a vacant statehouse seat to David Duke, 38, a former grand wizard...
David Duke claims to have abdicated the title of imperial wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Now he wants a new one: Louisiana state legislator. Last month Duke, 38, finished first with 33% of the vote in a nonpartisan election for representative from Metairie, a white suburb of New Orleans. In a runoff this week he faces runner-up John Treen, 63, a local builder and the brother of former Governor David Treen. Duke denies he is a racist and says coyly that he supports "civil rights for all people." Duke, who says he heads an outfit...
When he decides to stay at home, Jordan does so in splendid style in his new five-bedroom house in the Chicago suburb of Northbrook. In his first-floor "entertainment center" he can choose among 80-plus buttons on three remote controls and switch from the Bang & Olufsen stereo system to the large- screen TV set, to the VCR or CD player, and back again. The basement offers a Jacuzzi, poker table, small black pool table and six-hole putting green...
McGinniss now moves from the heinous to the despicable. Blind Faith is a highly stylized account of an upscale murder case in a small town on the edge of the Pine Barrens that, like so many New Jersey backwaters, has gone from quiet ruburb to bustling suburb in the past two decades. On the night of Sept. 7, 1984, Maria Marshall, 42, was shot to death while sitting in the family Cadillac. Husband Robert O. Marshall claimed he had parked the vehicle in a dark picnic area off the Garden State Parkway to inspect a tire. He further maintained that...
...Quincy Patriot Ledger (circ. 87,000), for example, has hired three Chinese-speaking reporters and a photographer to improve the paper's coverage of the Boston suburb's fast-growing Asian community. But editor William Ketter, who is chairman of the minorities committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, believes newspapers have to go further. They must, he insists, make a "deliberate and conscious effort" to reflect the diversity of their communities in every part of the paper, including graphics and comic strips...