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People still come to this spot at the end of Lock Three Road, in the swamps along the Louisiana-Mississippi border, where Cynthia Lynch's bloodied body was found beneath shrubs. Her death was an unlikely culmination to a weekend-long Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony, coming just days after Barack Obama's victory. She had applied to join online and traveled hundred of miles to attend the ceremony. Her death has left this region shocked, fearful of resurgent white supremacist groups, and dreading becoming a symbol of racial hatred in America...
APPOINTED Most recently a top contender for the No. 2 spot under Barack Obama, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, 50, was named the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee on Jan. 4. Kaine's term as governor expires at the end of the year...
...mail category. Demand for deliveries has been further beaten down by environmentalists, who consider snail mail a waste of paper. Meanwhile, spikes in oil prices in 2008 drove operating costs for the Postal Service's fleet - which is 220,000 vehicles strong - through the roof. (Marking one financial bright spot, those surges have since subsided.) And perhaps most biting of all are the multiple billions of dollars the agency has had to dole out annually to a prepaid retiree health-benefit fund, which was created by the Postal Act of 2006. The overall picture isn't pretty. "We actually reached...
...bright spot in last night’s game was the return of tri-captain Jenny Brine, who had missed the last three games with an injury...
Harvard (6-7-3, 6-4-2 ECAC) fell, 3-0, to the Big Green (9-5-2, 7-3-2), ceding sole possession of the top spot in the conference to Dartmouth and suffering another setback in what has been a trying season...