- "Master sculptor Lei Yixin of Changsha, China, who created the King statue, attended the debut.
"Speaking through a translator, he said, 'Martin Luther King is not only a hero of Americans, he also is a hero of the world, and he pursued the universal dream of the people of the world.'"
- "It's a new round in a conflict as old as the United States, in which successive waves of immigrants have often feuded with each other. But what's happening in Greenfield is distinct, partly because the split here pits immigrants rooted in the same country, but also because of the hard look it's forcing the town to take at itself."
- "But the real reason for Delany’s resignation came pouring out today, after the political website PolitickerNJ.com published a racially-charged e-mail that Delany’s wife, Jennifer, allegedly sent to state Senate candidate Carl Lewis in response to a mass e-mail from Lewis' campaign.
“'Imagine, not having to pay NJ state income taxes … It must be nice. Imagine getting a court ruling overturned so your name could get put on the ballot. Imagine having dark skin and name recognition and the nerve to think that equalled (sic) knowing something about politics. Sure, knowing someone with fat purse strings is nice, but you have no knowledge,' the website quotes Jennifer Delany writing."
- "Shery Lanford Smith, the chairwoman of Sumter Tea Party in South Carolina is under fire after posting a joke about killing President and First Lady Obama on her Facebook profile last Thursday. In the joke, the Obamas’ helicopter pilot says to his co-pilot, 'I could throw both of them out of the window and make 256 million people very happy!' Smith continued, 'If you’re one of [the] 256 million, pass it on,' which implies “she herself would be happy to see the Obamas killed.”
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