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...mantle sparked epic struggles, such as the early 20th century clash between the accommodationist Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, the militant founder of the N.A.A.C.P. The most recent chapter played out in the early 1970s, when Jackson himself displaced Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest confidant, Ralph David Abernathy, putting himself on course to become what many blacks wryly call the HNIC--Head Negro in Charge...
...many of the young shooters, news of another school rampage sets off bouts of emotional turmoil. Carneal became "seriously depressed" after the Columbine attack, according to Kentucky juvenile-justice commissioner Ralph Kelly. "He really took a setback from that. He felt a lot of responsibility for that happening." Kinkel also blamed himself for Columbine. On hearing the news, Kinkel told a psychologist, "I flipped out, started blaming myself." According to a friend, the March school shooting in Santee also disturbed Kinkel. Victor Cordova, incarcerated in a juvenile-treatment facility in New Mexico for shooting a schoolmate in the head...
Police Chief M.T. Berry says it wasn't until 1999 that the department had any reason to be suspicious about her work. That's when federal Judge Ralph Thompson lit into her for "untrue" testimony and the "blatant withholding of unquestionably exculpatory evidence" in the rape and murder trial of Alfred Brian Mitchell. (Thompson overturned the rape conviction but let the murder stand.) In March 2000 Gilchrist was put out to pasture at a police equine lab, where she says she had to do "demeaning tasks" like count test tubes...
...many of the young shooters, news of another school rampage sets off bouts of emotional turmoil. Carneal became "seriously depressed" after the Columbine attack, according to Kentucky juvenile-justice commissioner Ralph Kelly. "He really took a setback from that. He felt a lot of responsibility for that happening." Kinkel also blamed himself for Columbine. On hearing the news, Kinkel told a psychologist, "I flipped out, started blaming myself." According to a friend, the March school shooting in Santee also disturbed Kinkel. Victor Cordova, incarcerated in a juvenile-treatment facility in New Mexico for shooting a schoolmate in the head...
...University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (Department of Serendipity: its motto is Excellence). In 1981, he became a reporter in the Business section, just in time to catch the din of the roaring '80s. He helped chronicle the rise of the business celebrity, writing covers on Michael Eisner and Ralph Lauren, and the consumer side of business, like "Gridlock" and "Bad Service," and he edited one on "The Simple Life." As Business editor toward the end of the '80s, he had many encounters with the darker side, including a cover story called "A Game of Greed," in which RJR-Nabisco chief...