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...example, Pepper got the idea that clandestine Army units were stalking King from a sensational series of articles by former Memphis Commercial Appeal reporter Steven G. Tompkins, who now serves as a spokesman for Georgia Governor Zell Miller. In 1993 Tompkins wrote, "On April 3 [the day before the killing], King returned to Memphis. Army agents from the 111th Military Intelligence Group shadowed his movements and monitored radio traffic from a sedan crammed with electronic equipment. Eight Green Beret soldiers from an 'Operation Detachment Alpha 184 Team' were also in Memphis carrying out an unknown mission." Although Tompkins wrote that...
...doesn't have an agent yet, but former Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun will make his movie debut in Steven Spielberg's Amistad. The role isn't a stretch: he plays former Justice Joseph Story. Without the aid of a p.r. rep, Blackmun released a statement saying he was honored to be "in Mr. Spielberg's significant film about our nation's struggle with slavery...
Undergraduate Council member Steven Mitby challenged this norm and the result is telling. The day after Mitby spoke against a bill urging the University to add "transgendered" to its non-discrimination policy, he found a threatening note complete with a hand-written swastika taped to his dorm room door...
...they would say that Steve [Mitby] didn't deserve the hate letter. But privately, many people probably thought it wasn't thoroughly unjustified," the council member says. "Many U.C. members condemned the incident [against Mitby] but it just didn't sit right with them to say what happened to Steven was categorically wrong. A conservative opinion is going to be typecast as intolerant whereas a liberal opinion is going to be seen as being tolerant...
...pocketful of quarters won't be of much use at GameWorks, another Steven Spielberg fantasy come true, opening this week in Seattle. The 30,000-sq.-ft. arcade features a state-of-the-art fighter-plane simulator and other virtual-reality diversions, music videos, a Starbucks, a gourmet-pizza joint, a brew pub, and a floor-to-ceiling game that lets you rise 28 ft. in the air as you score hits against a bad guy called...