May 29, 2008, 3:29 PM
Clinton’s Latest Claim: She’s The Most “Fiscally Responsible” Candidate
From CBS News’ Fernando Suarez:
HURON, S.D. — On her last day of campaigning in South Dakota, Hillary Clinton told a group of supporters huddled inside a ballroom that South Dakotans should pick her on Tuesday because of her economic experience. “If you [...]
Democratic Candidate Distances Himself From The Rev. Michael Pfleger Over Racially-Charged Remarks
CHICAGO, May 29, 2008
In this June 1, 2007 file photo, Rev. Michael Pfleger, left, of Saint Sabina Catholic Church is seen with Rev. Jesse Jackson during a news conference at Rainbow/Push Coalition headquarters in Chicago. Pfleger apologized Thursday, May 29, 2008, for the sermon [...]
Part Seven
by Milton Allimadi
The same racist propaganda that prepared European and American public opinion for the divvying up of Africa in the late Nineteenth Century, reemerged with a vengeance as African nations won nominal independence in the mid-Twentieth Century. Western media paved the way for the assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba and the subsequent [...]
SUPERNOVA CAUGHT AT ITS VERY FIRST START:
SN 2008D, a Type Ib supernova, shown in X-ray (left) and visible light (right) at the far upper end of the galaxy. Captured by the NASA Swift-X-ray Telescope, on January 9, 2008. NASA image.
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Multiwavelength X-ray, infrared, and optical compilation image of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant, SN 1604. (Chandra X-ray Observatory)
The Crab Nebula [...]
U.N. Aid Workers Accused of Sex Crimes in Congo
Didier Bourguet, a U.N. official from France, is pictured here in one of the images found on his hard drive, which was obtained by ABC News. Also on the hard drive were thousands of photos of him having sex with hundreds of young girls.
(ABC News)
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British charity reports [...]
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: May 25, 2008
Every once in a while as a journalist you see a scene that grips you and will not let go, a scene that is at once so uplifting and so cruel it’s difficult to even convey in words. I saw such a scene last weekend at the College of [...]
Chris Ramirez for The New York Times
Leonard Julien Jr. by the home where he grew up in Donaldsonville, La. Mr. Julien’s father invented a machine to plant sugar cane.
By RON STODGHILL
Published: May 25, 2008
STRIDING across the rain-soaked field of an abandoned Louisiana plantation, Mitch Landrieu, the state’s lieutenant governor, waved his hands impatiently. “C’mon, you’ve [...]
I am writing as one who has lived among you in America only a little more than ten years. And I am writing seriously and warningly. Many readers may ask:
“What right has he to speak about things which concern us alone, and which no newcomer should touch?”
I do not think such a standpoint is justified. [...]
FORT LOGAN NATIONAL CEMETERY, DENVER, COLORADO.
Following the end of the Civil War, many communities set aside a day to mark the end of the war or as a memorial to those who had died. Some of the places creating an early memorial day include Charleston, South Carolina; Boalsburg, Pennsylvania; Richmond, Virginia; Carbondale, Illinois; Columbus, Mississippi; [...]
SHIFTING CAREERS – DIVERSITY AT THE OFFICE: POLICY VS. REALITY
By MARCI ALBOHER
Published: May 25, 2008
MINORITY employees may flee workplaces even when employers have so-called diversity programs in place, says Natalie Holder-Winfield, an employment lawyer turned diversity consultant.
A book by Natalie Holder-Winfield advises employers how to create and sustain diversity.
I recently talked with Ms. Holder-Winfield, the [...]
