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...small area between Main Street and the mountain. Elderly blacks remember the injustice of separatism and Shermantown as one of the last areas in DeKalb County to get sewers and paved roads. But even when separatism was perpetuated by law, "Stone Mountain blacks and whites got along harmoniously," says Ralph Shipp, 68, a lifelong resident. Other African Americans also recall warm relationships between the races. And yet the Klan had a strong presence in Stone Mountain, its leader occupying the two-story white house the black mayor now lives in. James R. Venable, Imperial Wizard of the National Knights...
...Where?s Ralph?" asked someone in the audience. The reply from conference organizer Bob Borosage, head of the think tank Campaign for America?s Future, couldn?t have been more cutting. Ralph Nader, Borosage said, has nothing to offer Democrats. After all, Nader?s run for the White House is widely seen as having pulled enough votes from Al Gore to ensure Bush?s victory. Borosage called Nader?s campaign a "fool's errand"?and got heavy applause...
...Green Party candidate. But Democratic Congressmen who worked with him to craft a generation of consumer and environmental law now close their doors to him. And some public interest groups won?t team up with Nader organizations against Bush appointees. "There?s tremendous anger at Ralph every time Bush does something bad," said one Washington-based environmentalist. Even a protege like New York City public advocate Mark Green, a Democratic candidate for mayor, has publicly distanced himself from Nader, since the connection would hurt him with donors and party kingpins who backed Gore...
...Ralph Schumacher, of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Marian Garfinkel, a yoga teacher, published a brief paper on carpal tunnel syndrome in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The eight-week study determined that "a yoga-based regimen was more effective than wrist splinting or no treatment in relieving some symptoms and signs of carpal tunnel syndrome." Letters to JAMA challenged the study's methodology. The authors replied that it was a preliminary investigation to determine if further research was merited. They said...
...Group two" is terra incognita for the same institution whose philosophy building is named after Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821. Leiter agrees, despite pointing out that recent hires and promotions have solidified the department...