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...think some outsiders still view us as a bunch of anti-intellectual monkeys," says Ann Bates, a lifelong resident whose grandfather owned the drugstore where locals dreamed up the plan to bring the trial to town...
Meanwhile, Davis, who has been the director of the town's annual Scopes Trial Week, says the festival will not take place this year. While some residents have wondered whether that's because of pressure from outside groups during this 200th anniversary year, Davis says it was more of a staffing issue. "Simply put, the people who played Darrow and Bryan decided to retire this year, and they were kind of the driving forces behind all this," Davis explains...
...founded in 1930 and named for the victor of the Scopes trial) will be holding a symposium called "War and Peace: 150 Years of Christian Encounters with Darwin." The symposium will explore how Darwin's On the Origin of Species challenged creationist views. Retired professor Dick Cornelius says the town is committed to hearing all sides of an argument, "even if it doesn't favor our position." The motto of Bryan College is "Christ above...
Indeed, most of the 65 Twittering Representatives rely on their staffs to post links to press releases and notices of public events. "The feed is live now on http://dodd.senate.gov. The town hall will start shortly," reads a typical Tweet on Senate Banking Committee chairman Chris Dodd's Twitter page. But a few members like Hoekstra are braving uncharted territory, providing a unique window into the daily machinations of the nation's power brokers and, in the process, establishing a new form of civic journalism...
...dealing drugs and easy money, and all that's obscured when these things come to define his neighborhood. "There is a lot of good in the cités, but you have to look for it," he says. "There are people who are in the shadows, who the town hall, the government, have forgotten and left behind...