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...remember spending huge portions of my life in air-raid shelters singing A Hundred Green Bottles Hanging on the Wall," Albright recalls. "I remember when we moved to Walton-on-Thames, where they had just invented some kind of a steel table. They said if your house was bombed and you were under the table, you would survive. We had this table, and we ate on the table and we slept under the table and we played around the table...
...Governor Orval Faubus resisted integration, using the National Guard to defend segregation, at Little Rock's Central High School. A poor state, with the third-lowest median income in the U.S., the "Land of Opportunity" has nevertheless produced its share of big-money entrepreneurs--like Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and chicken magnate Don Tyson--and President Bill Clinton. Despite the stature of a Democratic native son in the White House, the past two elections have seen a rise in Republican turnout here, and the G.O.P. is pulling out all the stops this year, especially with two formerly Democratic congressional...
...National Drug Control Policy, where he recruited a strong staff and garnered much attention for its efforts and, of course, for himself. But several of his colleagues felt betrayed when he resigned after only 20 months to make more money outside government. "I was disappointed in him," said Reggie Walton, a Washington judge Bennett had hired as a top deputy. "I had signed on for a four-year effort, and when he left, that effort suffered tremendously...
...representatives of more than 40 charitable organizations and agencies--including Project Heartland, the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, churches and civic groups--meet to consider how best to manage the funds and address individual cases. Agencies pooled money, for example, to buy a specially equipped van for Susan Walton, 45, whose legs were crushed. Some $6 million has been set aside to educate the 165 children who were financially dependent on someone who died in the bombing. The foundation has also paid off mortgages, retired car loans, hired nurses and paid the caseworkers who help families regroup, relocate...
With the aid of his collaborator, Anthony Walton, he casts himself as a sort of "Sharpton Lite." He writes with calculated candor about aspects of his life that can be counted on to spark empathy--for instance, his early career as a traveling Pentecostal "boy preacher," which began at age four. But when it comes to his forays into racially charged controversies, Sharpton's account is self-servingly selective. Take his rendition of the saga of Tawana Brawley, the black teenager whose sensational claims of having been raped by a gang of white men kept New York City...