Word: righting
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Meanwhile, south of the 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...
...separation from his wife and the revelation of a relationship with another woman, forced him to forgo the race. The enthusiastic Rick Lazio from Long Island got whomped by Hillary, 56% to 44. At the Democratic convention in Los Angeles in August, the Clintons were a team (right). But the body language on election night was telling. At Hillary's rally, the President kept sidling over for a hug, and Hillary kept striding away. There she stood, firmly, on her own two feet...
...trick in the book to win the presidency? Think again. The post-ballot maneuverings of Al Gore and George W. Bush were nothing compared to what Slobodan Milosevic tried in Yugoslavia when, to his astonishment, an election went against him. On Sept. 24 Vojislav Kostunica, head of the center-right Democratic Party of Serbia, who had the support of a coalition of 15 opposition parties, seemed to have ended Milosevic's 13-year autocratic rule. But when the votes were counted, the state-run Federal Election Commission reported 48.22% for Kostunica, 40.23% for Milosevic. At Milosevic's strong urging...
...Pope's spring visit to the Holy Land seemed like ancient history, as did the unsuccessful mid-summer Camp David summit, when fighting erupted between Arabs and Israelis in the autumn. The spark: on Sept. 28 right-wing Israeli politician and former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, and Palestinians took great umbrage. Protests quickly led to violence, and in the next week rocks, firebombs and bullets claimed the lives of some 70 people and injured more than 1,800 others. It didn't stop there: in October this young Palestinian hurled...
...sure nobody is looking at me," said David Duchovny as he served as a Grammy presenter alongside Versace-draped Jennifer Lopez (seen at right after the show with always-in-trouble beau Puff Daddy). Matt Stone could sympathize with Duchovny after escorting his South Park co-creator Trey Parker to the Oscars, above...