Kiplagat, Lel Win Peachtree Race

Lornah Kiplagat of the Netherlands won her fifth Peachtree Road Race title Tuesday and Martin Lel of Kenya captured the men's division to lead a field of 55,000 runners, the world's largest 10-kilometer road race

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Ill. Governor Happy Problems Being Found

Gov. Rod Blagojevich insisted Tuesday that continued findings of wrongdoing within his administration are "a good thing" because they are being made by an inspector general he appointed to help him clean up state government.

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Car Hits Ind. Boat Race Crowd; 10 Hurt

The driver of a car that plowed through a throng of speedboat racing fans and into the Ohio River appeared to have been slumped over the steering wheel before he sped into the crowd, police said.

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NYC Mayor Spent $85.1M on Re-Election

The bills are paid, the books are closed and the final number is in: Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent $85.1 million on his re-election.

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Father of Candidate Denies Child Abuse

The father of Republican Senate hopeful Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland publicly denied allegations that he beat her during her childhood — the latest twist in a series of dramatic disclosures about that have rocked the campaign of the woman hoping to unseat Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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Boat Race Puts Solar Technology to Test

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines — and pray for sunny skies. The "Frisian Nuon Solar Challenge" race for boats powered exclusively by solar panels got off to a challenging start Monday, under cloud cover and a light drizzle.

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Rainy Netherlands Hosts Solar Boat Race

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines — sort of. More than 20 teams from Europe and the United States are gearing up for the Nuon Solar Challenge, a contest to build and race a solar-powered boat.

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Poll Shows Michigan Governor Race Close

Michigan's gubernatorial race between Democratic incumbent Jennifer Granholm and Republican challenger Dick DeVos is close, according to a poll released Wednesday.

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N.M. GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Quits

It looked like Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson would coast toward re-election until Saturday when his little-known Republican opponent dropped out of the race and the GOP named a more aggressive candidate.

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Calif. GOP Seeks to Mobilize Volunteers

State Republicans hope to mobilize more GOP volunteers than ever before to help Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger win re-election, a strategy modeled on get-out-the-vote drives that helped President Bush capture swing states in 2004.

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Brasil 1 Wins Leg of Volvo Ocean Race

Brasil 1 won the eighth leg of the Volvo Ocean Race early Saturday, the team's best result in the 36,000-mile, seven-month race scheduled to end in mid-June in Sweden.

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Weld Is Set to Exit N.Y. Governor's Race

With support for a run eroding, Republican Bill Weld will drop out of the race for New York governor, according to two sources informed of the decision.

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Supreme Court to Hear Schools Race Case

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether skin color can be considered in assigning children to public schools, reopening the issue of affirmative action. The announcement puts a contentious social topic on the national landscape in an election year, and tests the conservatism of President Bush's two new justices.

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New Orleans Homeowners Race to Fix Roofs

Look out across the rooftops of New Orleans and you can see splashes of bright blue everywhere. Nine months after Katrina, blue tarps still cover countless damaged houses, and homeowners are racing to fix their roofs before the summer rains and the hurricane season that began Thursday bring more misery.

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Panel: N.C. Should Pay for 1898 Race Riot

A state-appointed commission is urging North Carolina to provide reparations for the 1898 racial violence that sparked an exodus of more than 2,000 black residents from Wilmington.

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ABN AMRO TWO to Continue Volvo Ocean Race

The crew ABN AMRO TWO has decided to complete the Volvo Ocean Race despite the death of a teammate, their skipper said Wednesday.

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Spitzer Hits Road With Governor's Campaign

With the Democratic Party designation in hand and a fresh television ad on the air, Eliot Spitzer is taking his campaign for governor on the road.

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Kan. Gov. Selects Running Mate for Race

Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius announced Wednesday that the former state Republican party chairman, who switched his affiliation to Democrat only a day earlier, will be her next running mate.

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N.Y. Democrats Get Behind Spitzer for Gov.

New York's Democratic Party on Tuesday designated Attorney General Eliot Spitzer as its candidate for governor, and the man who forced reforms of Wall Street and corporate America promised to reform state government's ethics, taxes and spending.

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Volvo Ocean Race Crew Describes Drama

Water crashed onto the deck of the ABN AMRO TWO as the winds kicked up and the seas got rough.

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Body of Dutch Crewman Returns Home

The body of crewman Hans Horrevoets was returned to the Netherlands on Monday, four days after he was swept overboard the ABN AMRO TWO during Leg 7 of the Volvo Ocean Race.

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Dutch Yacht ABN AMRO ONE Wins Another Leg

Dutch yacht ABN AMRO ONE won the seventh leg of the Volvo Ocean Race on Saturday, two days after the death of a Dutch sailor on a sister yacht.

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Parks Employee Worked for N.Y. Candidate

A parks department employee accused of falsifying time sheets spent more than half his time doing political work for Nassau County executive Tom Suozzi's nascent gubernatorial campaign, the employee's attorney said.

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Volvo Ocean Race Sailor Dies

A Dutch crewman in the Volvo Ocean Race died early Thursday after being swept overboard in heavy Atlantic seas, race organizers said.

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Round-The-World Yacht Race Heads to England

Seven yachts set off Thursday for a trip from New York to England on the next leg of an around-the-world race that launched six months ago.

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'Black Culture' Blamed for Hurricane Katrina Woes

Nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city of New Orleans, some prominent black conservatives and religious leaders blame cultural problems among African Americans, not the government, for "the great breakdown witnessed during and following" the natural disaster.

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Being A Black Man - A Washington Post Video Series

Over the past 50 years, black men have been perhaps the most studied and dissected population subgroup in America.

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How liberals injure blacks::By Dennis Prager

This is another terrible legacy of the dominant liberal attitudes vis a vis America's blacks. For the liberal worlds of academia and media, as for the Democratic Party, blacks are not seen as individuals, the way members of virtually other minority and majority groups are.

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Advocates quietly push for slavery reparations

Advocates quietly push for slavery reparations With global attention and cases in court, scholars say issue has momentum

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No political party can contain us -Commentary

Bishop T.D. Jakes is founder and senior pastor of The Potter's House of Dallas, a multiracial, nondenominational church with more than 50 outreach ministries.

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Sony ad casues white riot

Is the world ready to explore themes of race and domination in the context of a videogame console ad?

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Whites being lured into Islamic terror

Details of the document, which have emerged in the week before the first anniversary of the July 7 London Tube bombings, also reveal that white converts and other British Muslims are joining a "terrorist career path" after being targeted by radicalist recruiters at universities o …

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The Tragic Mulatto Myth

Fortunate for us, 21st century America is becoming increasingly tolerant to interracial unions.

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The polite face of racism - having serious debate

Rather than sympathising with the bigoted, racist concepts of any kind or delicately top-toeing around the issue, we should call them precisely what they are and utterly condemn them.

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Why Earl Can't Work for Hooters

What allows strip clubs to hire sexy women, NBA coaches to draft tall guys, and NBC's newest drama to star a dewy teen queen instead of a fifty-five-year-old former electrician named Earl? The answer is an acronym: BFOQ.

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McKinney Campaign Website Uses Racial Slurs, Critic Says

"Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.), who charged last March that the Capitol Police harassed her because she is "a female black Congresswoman," allows posters on her re-election website to use racial slurs, a conservative black leader says.

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The Wrong Black Man

The only trait indisputably shared was race. The fugitive in the system and the suspect in handcuffs were both black men. The birth dates were three years apart.

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Politics of Race, Culture, and Health

This contains several links on the issues of race and politics, and on the effects on American culture. It is a little hard to navigate thru but has a lot of information.

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Schools' Efforts on Race Await Justices' Ruling

Courts in the 1990's mostly struck down the use of race in assignment decisions, but three federal rulings since 2003 have permitted its use. As the legal ambiguity has grown, hundreds of districts have dropped voluntary efforts to maintain racial balance.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue? Not in Lexington: It was too divisive, town panel leader says

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The Race Card

I'll keep this short... When I first read the article regarding the Jay-Z boycott, I felt the same way most people did...that the accusation of racism from the known information was probably not justified. Another one of those, huh... The Race Card

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School dance teams raise race questions: Many were upset at apparent segregation

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The Color of Disaster Assistance

Overall, the "penalty" for being black and a Katrina victim amounted to about $1,000, according to the latest online study by The Washington Post, washingtonpost.com and Shanto Iyengar, director of the Political Communication Lab at Stanford University.

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Block the Vote, Ohio Remix - New York Times

They'll try literacy tests and poll taxes for voters next; mark my words. All these lying bigots do the same things.

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Treat me like I'm black, sez Teddy's son

Fresh from rehab, Rep.

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Things Every Foreigner Should Know About the U.S.

We outlawed alcohol. Prostitution has always been legal in the U.S. Gambling has always been legal in the U.S.

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Race and Death? A Black and White Situation??

Murdered blacks get little notice, but Rosenbaum's death did because "1) He was a white male, 2) he was a prominent journalist and 3) he was Jewish." The Rev. Anthony Evans, president of the D.C. Black Church Initiative, unloaded both barrels at Kenneth Wainstein, U.S.

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Black Men Torn Between Promise and Doubt

A recent survey conducted by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University indicates that Black men in America today are deeply divided over the way they see themselves and their country.

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BBC: Does diversity make us unhappy?

It is an uncomfortable conclusion from happiness research data perhaps - but multicultural communities tend to be less trusting and less happy. Research by the Home Office suggests that the more ethnically diverse an area is, the less people are likely to trust each other.

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Race Divides Omaha Schools

The Nebraska Legislature voted to divide Omaha's public schools into three racially identifiable districts, prompting the NAACP to file a lawsuit against the state arguing that the law "intentionally furthers racial segregation."

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