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Other reminders have ended up on history's dustheap. In New Orleans, for example, Jefferson Davis Elementary has become Ernest N. Morial Elementary, named after the city's first black mayor. Two weeks ago, the New Orleans City Council voted to dismantle the Liberty Monument, a granite obelisk to white supremacy. The Ole Miss faculty in Oxford, Mississippi, passed a resolution seeking to end the playing of Dixie at school events. In Memphis, Tennessee, black activists may soon try to remove from a city park the bronze statue of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Imperial Wizard...
Suffering and losses may be eased this time because the Federal Emergency Management Agency is moving with uncharacteristic speed and vigor. From its creation 14 years ago right through Hurricane Andrew in Florida last summer, FEMA built a reputation for bumble-footed sluggishness. Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings once called its officials "the sorriest bunch of bureaucratic jackasses." Under a new administrator, James Lee Witt, however, FEMA has moved quickly to set up offices in at least eight flooded states. Regional staffs actually went into some areas before flooding became serious to help state officials apply for disaster assistance. Witt...
...stuff of childhood nightmares. Her father, Robert Mays, an Englewood, Florida, roofing salesman, sat her down and told her that he was not her biological father. Nor was his late wife, Barbara Mays, her mother. Instead, she was the blood daughter of a Langhorne, Pennsylvania, couple, Ernest and Regina Twigg. In 1988 the Twiggs' daughter Arlena had died of a heart defect. Blood tests led to the discovery that the two girls had been switched at birth in a small rural Florida hospital. The Twiggs were now determined to make their biological daughter part of their life...
Some years ago, Ernest Fleischmann, the feisty chief of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, proposed a "Community of Musicians," a kind of superorchestra that would provide all of a city's musical needs, from performances of Mahler to string quartets in the schools to playing at weddings and bar mitzvahs. For it is only when the orchestra is seen not as a careerist battleground for carpetbagging conductors but as a vital part of the community, bringing music to a wide and diverse public, that its survival will be assured...
...mathematics professor late into the night. The next morning, the professor arrived late for his 10 o'clock class, whispering to Bloch that he couldn't see straight and that he would never join the students again. Richard K. Winslow recalls that his philosophy and sociology professor, W. Ernest Hocking, invited the class for Sunday afternoon tea once per month...