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...professors two with Jewish names and the third a black former judge) with "real America." Judge Higgenbotham and I both expressed resentment over being deemed something other than a real American. It reminded me of the bad old days of McCarthyism, where people who disagreed with the Senator from Wisconsin were called un-American...
...have friends at Yale and Wisconsin involved with AEPi," Heiman says. "They suggested to the national organization that I might be a person to contact to head a chapter here at Harvard...
Despite some highly publicized incidents each year--like the fatal shooting two weeks ago of a camouflaged hunter by a 13-year-old Wisconsin boy who mistook him for a squirrel--hunting's defenders point out that the sport is one of the safest outdoor activities, with fewer casualties than climbing or boating, for example...
Eston took a quite different path. For 14 years he lived in Chillicothe, the 1850 Census listing him as mulatto. But by 1860 he and his wife, who was also part black, were living in Wisconsin, his name changed to E.H. Jefferson, the marking on the Census now white. The family would become successful members of the white middle class, winding up on social registries. For descendants like Julia Jefferson Westerinen, 64, of New York City, there would be no idea of the family legacy. For her a brush with blackness was befriending the maid or disciplining her daughter Dorothy...
...pushing the research forward in a timely fashion requires the sort of support only the government can provide. "I'm convinced that there will be therapies based on these cells in my lifetime," says Wisconsin's Thomson. "But when that occurs will depend heavily on whether there is public involvement." Given the chances of overturning the funding ban in today's political climate, it is more likely to be later than earlier...