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...leave the church and the neighborhood, looking for greener pastures and whiter places in which to live and worship. And then there were those that came, saw and stayed. In a perfect world, religion should be color-blind. Oakhurst isn't in that perfect world. It's in Decatur, Georgia...
...mayor of Decatur attends Oakhurst, as do some affluent white gays who have settled in the area. "When you come here, you are going to shake the hand of somebody you don't know and would not normally meet," says Stroupe. "We are proclaiming a different reality." This month, Stroupe is releasing a new book on ethnicity in America titled While We Run This Race: Countering the Power of Racism. But the real lesson of Oakhurst isn't on a page, it's in the spirit of the gospel music swelling out of the church every Sunday...
...last Thursday, several hundred thousand E-mailed questions have poured into NASA's "Astro-2" site on the World Wide Web, but only three have made it past the space agency's sorters so far. "Why did they schedule the liftoff for 2 a.m.?" asked Thomas Maier, Jr. of Decatur, Ga. "I like to watch and it is past my bedtime. I am 9 years old you see." Crew member Tammy Jernigan, up at 5 a.m. EST, replied that astronomy studies indicated that an early liftoff would speed their search for intergalactic helium...
...main issues of the labor dispute of ADM and Ogilvie are quite the same as those of Decatur," said Trembly, who is a French speaker. "We will continue to develop solidarity with workers of the U.S. It gives us hope to come to you to fight to keep our dignity at work...
Canel said Harvard workers need to provide strikers with not only "moral and spiritual support," but also financial assistance. He said Harvard workers have raised more than $1300 to help the strikers in Decatur and Quebec...