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When Percy went to join the civil rights marchers in Selma, Ala., he took along Rangel, Dinkins and Basil Paterson, the father of New York's current governor. One day, after hearing Malcolm X speak in Harlem, Percy went to his office and said, "Malcolm, you need a lawyer." Percy represented him until his 1965 assassination...
...became the first black-owned radio station in the city. He had to go to 62 banks to get the money for it. His belief was that radio was the only way blacks running for office could get their message out. After the Apollo Theater's lights went out in 1975, Percy invested $250,000 to help revive the institution...
Dobbs could be a credible spoiler. One poll showed him attracting Perot-like presidential support, in the low teens. And the temptation is understandable, because the barrier between politics and media stardom has been getting more porous. Al Franken went from SNL star to radio host to Senator. Mike Huckabee has a show on Fox News. Sarah Palin left Alaska's governorship to be an author and a media gadfly. Glenn Beck recently announced a political-activist movement involving a "100-year plan" for America...
...results of memory-reconsolidation experiments are impressive. The participants in the Nature study were first trained to fear a certain arbitrary stimulus - they were shown colored cards while receiving mild electric shocks - then reconditioned during the reconsolidation period. The fear went away. It was still gone when the participants were retested a year later...
...worked - up to a point. As the treatment went on, I began to catch my first glimpses of what it might be like to live without wanting to cross the street every time I saw a stranger holding an ice cream cone. But they were just that: glimpses. The spell always faded, and I didn't know how to make it last...