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...Mason-Dixon line...Joseph T. Smitherman was the segregationist mayor of Selma, Ala., during the famous 1965 civil rights march, but by all accounts he wasn't the worst of segregationists and played no role in the beatings that occurred. As times changed, Smitherman's politics were right enough to appeal to Selma's white voters and centrist enough that he didn't get thrown out as an anachronism. He was running for a 10th re-election when, on Sept. 12 at age 70, he finally came up on the short end of a vote. James Perkins...
...millennium, wasn't happening. Instead, the hip mode of transportation evoked the era of Eisenhower, if not the Flintstones. The foot-propelled scooter captivated virtually every age group in every community across America. Collapsible, portable and all but useless for even medium-distance commutes, the scooter achieved enough prominence to generate its own backlash: injuries to riders, irritation to pedestrians. For the duration of its extended moment, the scooter answered a nostalgia for an earlier age and a desire for frivolity in this one--the very model of a modern major trend...
...intelligence revealed itself at St. Paul's Richard Gordon Elementary School, where he was singled out in the second grade as the outstanding boy student and did well enough in the third and fifth grades to be twice skipped ahead by half-grades. By the time he reached junior high school, he was the youngest, smallest boy in the class. He felt lost, unsure of himself. With no one to turn to, he made loneliness, insecurity and a stoic acceptance of life's defeats his earliest personal themes. At the same time, he possessed a strong independent streak and grew...
...made sure that a high school report card was printed in facsimile in a collection of his work "to show my own children that I was not as dumb as everyone has said I was." He sustained the traumas of his adolescence far into adulthood - far enough, in the end, to see them become a crucial element in the universal popularity...
...still won't be fast enough. If spring 2001 is indeed to be a season of recession, Alan Greenspan will have already waded in and out by the time the Bush tax cut gets to the negotiating phase. And if the landing is soft after all, then Greenspan will have saved us already...