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While fear is a common denominator, not everyone worries about the same things. Tom Metzger, who founded White Aryan Resistance in 1980 after breaking with the Ku Klux Klan, ridicules talk of a military invasion. "Ninety percent of that stuff is nonsense," he says. "We've got 10 million Mexicans flooding into this country, and the militias are worried about repainted helicopters." For their part, many militia groups aggressively weed out racists, and a few even have minority members. According to its leader, Fitzhugh MacCrae, New Hampshire's Hillsborough County Dragoons includes blacks, Latinos and Asians, and favors good works...
Philanthropic dollars are seeding the reinvention of Detroit. Demographer Kurt Metzger heads up Data Driven Detroit (DDD), an agency that just completed a plot-by-plot analysis of the city's 139-square-mile footprint, without which Griffin would be flying blind. DDD is backed by $1.85 million from the Kresge and Skillman foundations. Robert Bobb, emergency financial manager for the Detroit public schools, draws one-third of his $425,000 salary from an alliance of philanthropies led by the Eli Broad Foundation. And if all goes according to plan, Detroit will break ground this year on a trolley line...
...former dean’s remarks, as even she acknowledged that being the final speaker at yesterday’s class day ceremony meant repeating the sentiments of earlier speakers. “I was expecting something more original, especially coming from her,” said Olivier J. Metzger, a master of laws candidate. But many graduates said they were happy to see Kagan take part in the ceremonies marking their last days as Law School students. Juelle J. Gomes, who will receive a J.D., called the sight of Kagan behind the podium a “nostalgic?...
...Damiano said that after the success of Deep Throat, "If people wanted to interview me because I was a porno filmmaker, I just was not interested in talking to them." There had been gifted directors - Radley Metzger, Russ Meyer - making softcore in the '60s, but Damiano had higher ambitions. He wanted to be Ingmar F---in' Bergman...
...loss of a loved one, about 20% will face chronic emotional difficulties. Having a chance to say goodbye can mitigate those future problems. "It was less about how much was said, as long as you had the chance to say what you wanted to say," says lead author Patricia Metzger, a graduate student in psychology at the University of Wyoming. "People want that time to remind their spouse how much they love them...