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what about new orleans , where the 1990 super bowl was staged despite the fact that david duke , a former ku klux klan member , was holding a public office in the state of louisiana ?


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samuel belzberg spoke of the center 's accomplishments since its founding in 1977 , including its condemnation of events as diverse as the carmelite nuns ' establishment at auschwitz , anti-semitic lyrics in rock music and the election of former ku klux klan leader david duke to the louisiana state legislature .


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republican state rep. david duke , a former grand wizard of the ku klux klan , said that he will seek the u.s. senate seat of j. bennett johnston -lrb- d -la. -rrb- .


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johannesburg april 14 sapa -- the african national congress -lsb- anc -rsb- on thursday -lsb- 14 april -rsb- demanded the immediate withdrawal of the visa of visiting american david duke , a former member of the ku klux klan and avowed right-winger .


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mr duke , a former u.s. congressional candidate , arrived in south africa on tuesday on a private visit .


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south africans did not need mr duke , the anc said , adding that he should not be given time on radio or television to air his `` noxious '' views .


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delegates at the statewide convention picked state sen. ben bagert over secretary of state fox mckeithen , state rep. quentin dastugue of metairie and duke , also of metairie .


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he was followed by dastugue with 183 , mckeithen with 99 and duke with 52 .


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duke , 39 , won no more than 50 delegates at the caucuses and party officials said previously that he had little support among party regulars .


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letters emphasizing bush 's endorsement of republican businessman john treen in his state house race against david duke were circulated throughout the district , and radio commercials featuring reagan 's voice were broadcast throughout the day .


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duke led a field of seven candidates with 33 % of the vote in the jan. 21 primary .


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bush and reagan did not mention duke in their endorsements , but state and national republican officials made it clear that a duke victory would harm the party .


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`` it has to be political favors being called in , '' duke said after treen received the presidential endorsements .


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duke , 38 , publisher of a newspaper for the national assn .


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`` this election is the greatest political upset in louisiana history , maybe in american history , '' duke said .


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treen , a metairie home builder and brother of the state 's former governor , david treen , called duke `` a disaster for our area . ''


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the usually run-of-the-mill election drew worldwide coverage after the controversial duke surprised political observers by changing his party affiliation last december and entering a seven -man primary , capturing 33 % of the vote to treen 's 19 % .


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`` david duke is not a republican , '' republican national chairman lee atwater said in a statement released by the party saturday night .


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party officials in washington said that if duke is certified the winner , atwater will hold an executive meeting of the republican national committee to consider a motion of censure that was called `` the political equivalent of excommunication . ''


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the motion would condemn duke and deny him any form of party aid or assistance .


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many other political and civic leaders also opposed duke .


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treen 's campaign sought to remind the voters of duke 's past as a neo- nazi follower of george lincoln rockwell and as the imperial wizard of a branch of the klan .


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in new orleans , the roman catholic archbishop urged voters not to vote for duke , while the president of loyola university dispatched 785 letters to alumni in the district suggesting that they not vote for duke .


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but duke supporters said that reagan and bush , who received more than 80 % of the vote here in their presidential campaigns , were out of their element in this campaign .


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`` the people saw through the slime and the sham being spewed forth by our competition , '' said howie farrell , duke 's campaign manager .


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saturday 's election was duke 's latest foray into politics .


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duke , 38 , and treen , 63 , have battled for a month to represent the almost all-white district in metairie , a new orleans suburb with about 21,000 voters .


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fearing a duke victory and an embarrassment for the gop , president bush and former president ronald reagan threw their considerable weight behind treen , a longtime party functionary .


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`` i think we 're going to have a very fine victory , '' duke said .


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duke won 33 % of the vote to lead a field of seven in the jan. 21 primary .


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it is an era that duke claimed to be sorry for , but treen said he did not believe that .


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people might think i 'm racially or religiously intolerant , '' duke said .


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duke left the knights of the ku klux klan in 1980 , accused by another leader of selling secret membership rolls .


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the final days of the race brought renewed charges that duke still was associated with right-wing extremists , including ex- american nazi leader ralph forbes of arkansas .


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duke acknowledged that forbes had been campaign manager in his 1988 bid for the presidency as a member of the populist party .


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the motion filed by home builder john treen asks that duke 's candidacy be declared illegal because he lives outside the suburban new orleans district that elected him .


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rep. odon bacquet objected to letting republican duke take his seat , claiming that he did not meet the residency requirement , but bacquet 's tactic failed when the house voted 69-33 to table his motion .


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duke , who now heads the national assn .


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outside the capitol , about 25 students -- both black and white -- chanted `` do n't seat duke , keep duke out . ''


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just before the house met , a state district judge in metairie , which includes duke 's district , refused a request by defeated house candidate john treen for a restraining order to prevent his taking the seat .


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party spokeswoman leslie goodman said 28 voting members of the party 's executive committee unanimously repudiated during a telephone vote duke 's racist and anti-semitic views and barred financial or other assistance for him .


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the resolution adopted by the national republicans in effect `` excommunicates '' duke , according to atwater , who said duke is neither a republican nor a democrat but `` a charlatan and a faker '' using republicans to promote his racist agenda .


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i always figured that david duke would make something of himself .


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that 's because republican leaders are worried that duke , who has recently been running something called the national assn .


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in fact , republican chairman lee atwater was quick to repudiate duke after his victory , and convinced the party 's executive committee to `` expell '' him by barring duke from receiving financial or any other kind of assistance .


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but while duke insists on calling himself a republican , the gop is stuck with the former klansman .


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despite his loony-sounding affiliations , duke is not your typical political-fringe dingbat .


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i found that out in 1977 , when duke first got widespread public attention outside of louisiana .


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i was covering mexican border issues for the times , and ran across duke when the 27-year-old racist hit on the idea of a klan `` border watch . ''


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duke had concluded that illegal immigrants from mexico had joined blacks , jews and the other assorted klan bogymen as threats to white people in the united states .


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despite the fact the border patrol said it neither wanted nor needed help from the klan -- indeed , most agents i knew either laughed at the stunt or were offended by it -- many of my colleagues in the news media swallowed duke 's self-promotion hook , line and sinker .


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that happened on a sadly comic night in late october -- a few days before halloween , fittingly enough -- when duke rendezvoused with newsmen in rural san diego county , just north of the small mexican town of tecate .


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about 40 newsmen , their tv camera lights setting the dark night ablaze , descended on them to dutifully record duke 's claims that hundreds of other klansmen were out that very night , riding their cars along the border and communicating over citizens -band radios , to stem the `` brown tide '' threatening white america .


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i spent most of that night monitoring all cb channels and heard nothing except duke talking to his friends in the two other cars .


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it got even worse when i happened to run across duke in texas a few days later .


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we in the news media did not do ourselves proud in dealing with duke in 1977 .


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the demonstrations that latinos held against the klan back then played into duke 's hands , too , by increasing his notoriety .


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but as i ponder his recent success , i think there 's a way that latinos can use duke to their advantage this time .


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duke 's victory is the logical extreme of nixon 's cynical politics .


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but maybe with an embarrassment like duke now sitting on their right flank , republicans like atwater will be more inclined to act on their good impulses as well as talk about them .


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duke is somebody else 's problem now , but his reemergence has created an opportunity for minorities in the republican party .


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they must exploit what duke symbolizes -- the same way he has eagerly exploited what minorities symbolize to many misguided people .


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when one woman called , he said , and told him that `` she had just heard about david duke being elected to the louisiana state legislature and read about richard m. daley -lrb- who won the democratic primary for mayor -rrb- in chicago saying , 'you want a white mayor , ' and 'now i see a picture of the ku klux klan on campus .


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`` i think the racists in this city are people like jesse jackson , '' duke said at a chicago news conference after addressing the national convention of the right-wing populist party of america .


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jackson declined comment on duke 's statements , except to say : `` i do n't think it 's an american point of view . ''


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the middle-aged white woman in the david duke sweat shirt was pleasantly enthusiastic .


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duke , who has made the jump from radical fringe to elected official , points to such people as proof that his message is becoming acceptable to the mainstream .


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for the advancement of white people , duke won election to the louisiana legislature by talking about the high birth rate among unwed women on welfare and claiming that whites are victimized by civil rights laws .


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`` the david duke election was a signal of a sour mood of resentment on the part of some whites that has been a long time in developing , '' said irwin suall , director of fact-finding for the anti - defamation league of b'nai b'rith .


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some dismiss duke 's election by just 200 votes as an anomaly ; his suburban new orleans district is 99 % white .


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but suall and other trackers of racial tension believe that disparate events , such as duke 's slim victory at the polls and the rise of the racist skinhead subculture , are warning signs to be taken seriously .


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at a shopping mall on the edge of duke 's district , a white woman in her 30s offered her opinion but would not give her name :


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`` or , '' he said , `` these people can vote for a david duke in the belief they can protect what is mine . ''


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duke , however , believes that he is only the first to tap a growing sentiment .


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duke was elected after several unsuccessful attempts .


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the differences between then and now , says duke , are the sophistication of his organization and a change in the mood of the voters .


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sam altobello , registrar of voters in jefferson parish for 18 years , said duke 's message hit such a responsive chord that people outside his district called to see if they could register there so they could vote for him .


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whether duke 's rhetoric and its success will carry over in other parts of the country remains to be seen .


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duke says he has been contacted by more than 200 candidates or elected officials interested in his campaign .


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duke , a republican from metairie , branded the house action as `` cowardice . ''


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duke vowed to fight to have his measure tacked onto another bill as an amendment .


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duke , however , is unlike his demagogic predecessors .


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but his message is the same old line in `` new '' duke code .


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in discounting duke 's chances , pundits like to cite a johnston poll that put duke 's negative rating at 48 % , a number that would scare most politicians into retirement .


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yet duke 's current standing in the polls is an indication of how far he 's come , despite his negatives , since he won election a year ago to the state legislature by a mere 227 votes in a district that is 99 % white .


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one reason is that duke 's is a campaign in perpetuity .


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last year , a state gop central committee member , elizabeth rickey , twice offered a resolution censuring duke because he was selling nazi books and had argued that the holocaust was `` a myth perpetrated on christians by jews . ''


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but sensing duke 's blue-collar support , state gop leaders rejected rickey 's motions , thereby handing the former klansman a mantle of legitimacy .


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the faustian pact backfired when two ex- nazis and a former klan activist showed up as duke delegates to the convention that nominated bagert , who was a democrat until 1988 .


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now duke is outpacing his party 's own candidate .


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duke also enjoys some support on louisiana 's campuses .


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lance hill , a doctoral student researching the duke phenomenon at tulane , which has such a union , believes that most new recruits to the nazi movement will come from these unions .


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drawing crowds of 800 to 1,000 , duke routinely calls for -- and gets -- a show of hands of those with a friend or relative afflicted with cancer .


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as a state representative , duke has yet to sponsor a bill that became a law .


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only its main events are reported , with the paper devoting no space to how duke built his national assn .


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it advocates sterilizing welfare mothers , which duke translates as `` birth-control incentives '' in his speeches .


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to fill the duke -fact gap , the coalition has become an informational clearinghouse , with rickey and hill briefing media across the state .


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still , too many journalists do not question such duke statements as : `` i was never involved in any illegal activity , and i do n't condone illegal activity . ''


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in truth , duke was convicted , in 1979 , of inciting a riot outside a hotel in the district he now represents .


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duke 's anti- media campaign spares no adversary , no matter how small .


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in early may , publisher harrell griffin of the st. helena echo , a rural weekly , refused to run a duke advertisement .


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according to griffin , duke aide callie s. o'pry `` called in a very pleasant voice , saying they were going to institute a boycott against the echo , write letters to all advertisers to stop advertising and do the same with my subscribers .


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that week , duke spoke at a packed hall in chalmette , a suburb of new orleans .


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when duke scoffed at the martin luther king jr. holiday , one man piped : `` kill another one ! ''


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duke appeals to the fears of people who see their living standards declining amid rising crime and drug abuse .


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duke spoke of his `` employment working with the state department `` in laos in 1970 .


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according to retired lt. col. james may , who was duke 's senior rotc instructor : `` his affiliation with nazism precluded him from getting a commission .


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the state department has no record of duke 's employment .


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but david h. duke , the candidate 's father , who worked as a civil engineer for the u.s. government in southeast asia during the vietnam war , said in an interview last year that his son visited laos and `` got himself a job '' -- teaching english .


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like jimmy swaggart , another folk hero sprung from these latitudes , duke is a walking psychodrama , challenging reporters to separate fact from the many fictions of his speech .


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yet surely many voted for duke to send a message , not to embrace the messenger .


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whites cast ballots for duke ; blacks stayed home , with turnout 15 % less than whites , despite the threat that duke posed .


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duke made affirmative action the threat -- `` they 're going to take your job . ''


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one duke voter told of a friend who could not get a scholarship to college , while an african-american got one despite a lower grade average .


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the vote for duke is good cause for alarm , but his defeat should not go unnoticed .


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forty years ago , a david duke might have won the senate seat , running as a democrat .


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to treat duke as an exception is a deception .


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but what distinguishes duke from the mainstream republican party is his baggage , not his beliefs .


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duke is manipulating the same racial symbols as the republican party did under ronald reagan and george bush .


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the klan robes duke wore in the past are an embarrassment , but his current views fit republican fashion .


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david duke did better among the young than the old , among males than females .


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they have been less quick to forswear their party 's historic antipathy toward civil rights legislation -- an antipathy that made it easier for duke to call himself a republican , however uneasy it made gop regulars feel to hear him say so .


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`` the president and the congress are getting my message , '' duke said in a hallway interview .


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sen. rudy boschwitz -lrb- r - minn. -rrb- , who voted against the civil rights bill when it was approved by the senate , switched sides on the override vote. although his decision came after it was apparent that the measure would fail , boschwitz said that he changed his position because `` david duke was sitting in the balcony .


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for the advancement of white people , founded by duke .


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the louisiana gop plans to endorse a candidate jan. 12 , but duke said that he probably will run even if he is not the party 's choice .


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duke , who in the past has been associated with the far-right populist party , disavowed his racist beliefs when he was sworn in as a state representative .


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the delegates elected at the caucuses , however , had not been required to support the candidate they said they would vote for .


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he said he would oppose johnston regardless of whether he won the gop endorsement .


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the republican party rolled out its biggest guns thursday -- president bush and former president ronald reagan -- in an effort to keep a former ku klux klan leader from being elected to the legislature as a member of the gop .


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in 1975 he ran for a state senate seat , making no attempt to hide his klan affiliation , and won a third of the vote in an affluent baton rouge district .


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in 1979 , he ran for the 10th district senate seat in metairie and won about a fourth of the vote .


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in 1988 , he ran for the presidency as a member of the populist party .


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the seat opened up when metairie 's representative was elected to a judgeship with about three years left in a four-year term .


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but he had to overcome a republican opponent endorsed by some gop heavyweights -- including president bush and former president reagan -- to do it .


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so he announced that klan members would begin patrolling the border to help the u.s. border patrol catch illegal aliens .


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he and seven other men showed up in three old sedans that had hand-painted `` klan border watch `` signs taped on their doors .


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we also stirred up anxiety among chicano activists , and many became agitated at the thought of latinos being threatened by the klan .


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but what the artwork on a temporary construction fence sparked were complaints that the mural -- which includes images of a nude woman in chains and ku klux klan members -- is sexist and racist , plus counter-complaints of censorship .


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next to them is a group of protesters , symbolizing minority groups who have been victimized by the klan , said baca , an assistant art professor .


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she said some changes being discussed are enlarging the phrase `` hello my name is ignorance , '' including a puppeteer who would be pulling the strings of the grand wizard and adding two figures in the klan scene , a skinhead and a neo- nazi , she said .


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`` he 's for fair play for all , '' she said of the former ku klux klan leader she had come to hear .


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martin lipset , a stanford university sociologist , said he believes that other white-rights candidates may be elected to local offices , `` but they 're dead if they have any ambitions to go further . ''


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the shrinking middle class sees those in power have nothing left to offer , '' said tom metzger , the former klan leader who heads the separatist white ayran resistance , which has courted the skinheads .


Question: which former ku klux klan member won an elected office in the u.s. ?

a multiracial coalition reelected bennett johnston , as such coalitions have elected democrats from gov. douglas wilder in virginia and sen. wyche fowler in georgia .


Question: which former ku klux klan member won an elected office in the u.s. ?

unless we plow a new course , we leave fallow fields in which the david dukes flourish like weeds in the summer .


Question: which former ku klux klan member won an elected office in the u.s. ?

former mayor dutch morial , the city 's first black mayor , advertised in 1981 for a firm to remove the monument from the center of a tiny traffic circle .


Question: which former ku klux klan member won an elected office in the u.s. ?

he was elected last february to the state legislature .


Question: which former ku klux klan member won an elected office in the u.s. ?

since leaving the klan in the 1970s , he has headed the national assn .


Question: how many days are there in a martian year ?

the orbiter is the third in a series of nine probes to be launched by the national aeronautics and space administration through 2005 , with the goal of returning a sample of martian soil to earth .


Question: how many days are there in a martian year ?

the orbiter will track seasonal changes as well as the movement of water vapor and dust , observing how moisture evaporates from the ground and migrates through the air for an entire martian year _ 687 earth days .


Question: how many days are there in a martian year ?

the mars global surveyor fired its main rocket engine to descend toward the fringes of the martian atmosphere in an effort to tighten its orbit around the red planet .


Question: how many days are there in a martian year ?

the craft is supposed to establish an elliptical orbit and then , over 45 days , dip into the planet 's thin atmosphere and use the drag to make its course more circular .


Question: how many days are there in a martian year ?

nasa could launch any of the next several days , with only a only a 30 percent to 40 percent chance of a weather scrub through the weekend , project managers told a pre-launch news briefing wednesday at kennedy space center .


Question: how many days are there in a martian year ?

it was designed to map martian terrain for a martian year , equivalent to 687 earth days .


Question: how many days are there in a martian year ?

observations will continue for 687 days -- a full martian year .


Question: how many days are there in a martian year ?

starting in february 2000 , the orbiter will meticulously map the face of mars and conduct a daily survey of the planet 's atmosphere for a martian year _ 687 earth days .


Question: how many days are there in a martian year ?

one spacecraft , scheduled for arrival on thursday , is to orbit the planet and study its atmosphere , prospect for water and generally observe weather through the seasons of a full martian year -lrb- 687 days -rrb- .


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even if the climate orbiter is indeed lost , pilcher said , its science objectives _ observing weather over a full martian year -lrb- 687 days -rrb- and searching for the cold , arid planet 's water resources _ could be met by missions already on the drawing board for the next decade .


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in march 1998 , the craft is to begin compiling a database on the planet 's surface , atmosphere and interior structure throughout a full martian year -lrb- 687 earth days -rrb- .


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another instrument called the pressure modulator infrared radiometer will measure temperatures , dust , water vapor and clouds from the martian surface to above the horizon .


Question: how many days are there in a martian year ?

the spacecraft , called mars climate orbiter , is programmed to make the first full-scale study of martian weather .


Question: how many days are there in a martian year ?

together , mars climate orbiter and mars polar lander will look for water in the martian soil and atmosphere .


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the lander is designed to parachute lightly to the martian surface in december 1999 after releasing two basketball-sized probes that will crash-land and drill beneath the surface near the planet 's south pole .


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the lander 's 6.5-foot-long digging arm will probably take two days to scoop up soil samples and deliver them to an oven .


Question: how many days are there in a martian year ?

the wide-angle camera will be used for daily global pictures of the martian atmosphere and surface .


Question: how many days are there in a martian year ?

it is an infrared radiometer for examining the temperatures and water content of the martian atmosphere .


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for reasons still unknown , all signals from observer suddenly stopped three days out from mars , and it was never heard from again .


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then it will rely on a fuel-saving technique to dip repeatedly into the thin upper fringes of martian atmosphere to slow its momentum .


Question: how many days are there in a martian year ?

the six instruments aboard the surveyor are designed to deduce martian mineral composition ; gather data on dust clouds , water content and other aspects of the atmosphere ; and search for a martian magnetic field .


Question: how many days are there in a martian year ?

according to nasa , the planned 13 international mars missions have three major themes : to search for evidence of life and water ; to understand the martian climate and its lessons for earth ; to study the geology and other resources that might support human explorers in next century .


Question: what is the name of the airport in dallas ft. worth ?

the fort worth-based airline currently offers jet service only to dallas / fort worth international airport and houston 's george bush intercontinental airport , rather than the two urban- area airports .


Question: what is the name of the airport in dallas ft. worth ?

it marked the 17th time this month that the minimum at dallas was 80 degrees or higher , setting a new july record for the city .


Question: what is the name of the airport in dallas ft. worth ?

weather records at dallas date back to 1899 .


Question: what is the name of the airport in dallas ft. worth ?

though the media has focused on the number of 100 -degree days in dallas this month , hot nights have been more impressive .


Question: what is the name of the airport in dallas ft. worth ?

average highs in dallas are in the upper 90s so many of the daily highs have been approximately 3 to 6 degrees above average .


Question: what is the name of the airport in dallas ft. worth ?

austin , texas _ american airlines is still two weeks away from taking off with new service between austin and dallas and houston , but already it 's waging a war of words with rival southwest airlines , the biggest carrier at robert mueller municipal airport .


Question: what is the name of the airport in dallas ft. worth ?

starting aug. 31 , american will offer 14 daily flights between austin and love field in dallas , where southwest is based .


Question: what is the name of the airport in dallas ft. worth ?

last week , american mailed tens of thousands of postcards to american frequent flier members in austin , dallas and houston , offering them 2,500 extra miles for every five segments they fly between austin and either dallas love field or houston hobby between aug. 31 and dec. 15 .


Question: what is the name of the airport in dallas ft. worth ?

for nearly 20 years , the wright amendment has restricted service at love field , just north of downtown dallas , to flights to and from other texas cities and four adjoining states _ arkansas , louisiana , oklahoma and new mexico .


Question: what is the name of the airport in dallas ft. worth ?

some airline analysts said they think american will become a major player in the market between austin and dallas and houston _ a market long dominated by southwest .


Question: what is the name of the airport in dallas ft. worth ?

it also is adding daily one-stop service to new york 's laguardia airport beginning sept. 9 .


Question: what is the name of the airport in dallas ft. worth ?

but they said expansion to a second dallas airport threatens the viability of 18 , 000-acre d/fw .


Question: what city is disneyland in ?

bret colson , an anaheim city spokesman , said that while police have no reason to believe any crime was committed in the accident , detectives would prefer to examine a scene themselves instead of letting disneyland authorities make that determination for them .


Question: what city is disneyland in ?

disneyland said about 40 stage performers and 15 technicians were on strike , while the communist -controlled general labor confederation -lrb- cgt -rrb- said about 150 remained off the job , with restaurant workers beginning to strike and others threatening to walk out .


Question: what city is disneyland in ?

there 's already been an 8 percent raise over three years , '' said disneyland spokesman michel dompnier .


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dompnier said disneyland was offering more training and higher-paying stage or technical positions to qualifying employees .


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`` it 's true that the economy is bad now but i think people in times like these need something to take their minds off of their troubles , '' said toshio kagami , president of oriental land co. which owns disneyland and will also build , own and operate disneysea .


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an american waterfront section will include reproductions of the new york city waterfront at the beginning of the 20th century .


Question: what city is disneyland in ?

when a disneyland visitor was fatally injured by a flying piece of metal last month , the folks at the self-proclaimed `` happiest place on earth '' had the blood and debris cleaned up within a half-hour , before investigators could get a look at the scene .


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legally , disneyland did nothing wrong .


Question: what city is disneyland in ?

but to some , the quick cleanup illustrates a corporate arrogance and an extreme desire to preserve the disneyland illusion of innocence , even at the expense of accountability to its guests .


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john luetto , an orange county lawyer who claims to have filed the only successful lawsuit stemming from an injury at disneyland since the park opened in 1955 , said : `` they 're intent on assessing the situation themselves without outside authority .


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that 's what 's at play most often when you encounter disneyland . ''


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his wife and a disneyland employee were injured .


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disneyland spokesman ray gomez said the mess was cleaned up quickly `` because it was in a very visible location in the park .


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gomez denied disneyland neglects its responsibility to protect guests , saying `` safety is part and parcel of our guests ' having a good experience. ''


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disneyland guests , however , have no way of knowing how safe the rides are .


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luetto 's client was stabbed by a fellow disneyland patron in 1981 and bled to death after being treated by an on-site nurse and driven to a hospital that had no trauma center .


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disneyland workers did n't contact paramedics , luetto said .


Question: what city is disneyland in ?

in last month 's accident , disneyland immediately contacted paramedics via a special , direct line but did not call police .


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cal- osha investigators are looking into whether disneyland was improperly stopping the ship with a cleat -- which state officials say is only for mooring , not stopping -- and whether the employee docking the ship had been properly trained .


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michael t. berry , disneyland 's new operations chief , told the los angeles times that dockworkers are no longer allowed to stop the columbia with a rope and cleat .


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disneyland tickets carry a warning on the back that all ticket holders are agreeing to litigate any claims for injury or loss in orange county .


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he also said having former disneyland employees on the police force , including the chief and a captain , is a benefit for the public because it gives officers inside knowledge of the park .


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as for releasing disneyland 's injury statistics , gomez said disney is not convinced that would be helpful to the 14 million visitors to disneyland every year .


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disneyland 's florida counterpart , walt disney world , has been the target of similar criticism .


Question: what city is disneyland in ?

some disneyland visitors on a recent afternoon said they 'd like to see more oversight and know more about ride safety records .


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it 's a far cry from his childhood in rochester , where he and his four younger brothers and sisters lived in the gritty part of the city .


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from the school of arts , diggs went to syracuse university , and after he graduated , headed to new york city to pursue his acting dreams .


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the boeing co. , which acquired mcdonnell douglas , employs more than 20,000 people in the city .


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san diego is a beautiful city situated at the bottom of california , nestled next to the pacific ocean .


Question: what city is disneyland in ?

with l.a. being only 90 minutes north and tijuana , mexico just 40 minutes south , both cultures tug at the city .


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the rhodes ' live in century city , down the street from 20th century fox studios and around the corner from lucille ball 's old house .


Question: what city is disneyland in ?

i actually spent a lot of my time at disneyland watching mickey 's little helpers joyfully dish out ice cream and gleefully clean the streets just waiting for their faces to fall .


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after checking in at our hotel , the milano , we headed into the city .


Question: what city is disneyland in ?

our last day was spent shopping for schlocky gifts in chinatown , stuffing ourselves at yank-sing -lrb- a dim sum restaurant in the financial district -rrb- and watching soccer with italians in the north beach area of the city .


Question: what city is disneyland in ?

the day in nassau offered a chance to explore the colonial capital city of the bahamas with its famous straw market , duty-free shops and restaurants .


Question: what city is disneyland in ?

`` if hong kong brings a disneyland theme park to town , it would generate about hong kong $ 20 billion -lrb- 316 billion yen -rrb- in construction spending , 3 million additional tourists and about 95,000 low-skill jobs , '' according to credit suisse first boston .


Question: what city is disneyland in ?

it remains to be seen whether the euphoria in hong kong about hosting a disneyland will be justified .


Question: what city is disneyland in ?

led by disneyland , california theme parks have spent 30 years fighting repeated attempts at state regulation .


Question: what city is disneyland in ?

another disneyland patron , 5- year-old david fackler of la jolla , in san diego county , lost half of his foot after dangling it outside the park 's big thunder mountain railroad ride .


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disneyland , the state 's most popular park , has kept a low profile on torlakson 's measure .


Question: what city is disneyland in ?

while it would be cynical to say that this metropolis of 6.8 million will be defined by mickey mouse , it is hard to overstate the impact that officials here believe a disneyland will have on hong kong 's image and its tourism industry .


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he contends that hong kong disneyland , which is to open in 2005 , will pump $ 19 billion into the economy over four decades , much of it through a revived tourist trade .


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but nobody disputes that hong kong needed a jolt _ something to remind tourists that it is still probably the most cosmopolitan city in asia .


Question: what city is disneyland in ?

disney executives said hong kong 's international character was a key reason they chose it over shanghai and other mainland cities that were lobbying to be the site of the first chinese disneyland .


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`` it 's just an incredibly exciting city , '' said judson c. green , chairman of disney 's theme-park division .


Question: what city is disneyland in ?

the site for the proposed disneyland is in a quiet bay on lantau island , conveniently midway between central hong kong and the airport and not far from a high-speed train that connects the two .


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hutchinson said that business people traveling to hong kong would have an incentive to bring their families ; they could stay in the city for a week , then tack on an extra couple of days at a disney hotel .


Question: what city is disneyland in ?

to be successful , hong kong 's disneyland will also have to attract millions of visitors from mainland china .


Question: what city is disneyland in ?

even as disneyland is poised to draw more chinese visitors to hong kong , some people here fret that it will rob the city of its chinese character .


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`` at the end of the day , what makes a city great is its ethnic identity , '' said david tang , the founder of shanghai tang , a boutique that sells pricey clothing with a retro- mao flavor , mostly to tourists .


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Question: what book did rachel carson write in 1962 ?

rachel carson 's 1962 book `` silent spring '' said dieldrin causes mania .


Question: what book did rachel carson write in 1962 ?

that caused rachel carson to write in her 1962 book `` silent spring '' that their disappearance might `` make it necessary for us to find a new national emblem. ''


Question: what book did rachel carson write in 1962 ?

in her 1962 book `` silent spring , '' rachel carson , a marine biologist , chronicled ddt 's poisonous effects , showing , for example , how it killed the robins that ate the earthworms that dined on the leaves of dutch elm trees that had been sprayed with the insecticide .


Question: what book did rachel carson write in 1962 ?

in 1962 , former u.s. fish and wildlife service biologist rachel carson shocked the nation with her landmark book , `` silent spring . ''


Question: what book did rachel carson write in 1962 ?

it could almost be said that what we call the environmental movement did begin with a single book : rachel carson 's `` silent spring . ''


Question: what book did rachel carson write in 1962 ?

in a forward to the new book , u.s. vice-president albert gore described the book `` critically important '' and compared it with `` silent spring , '' rachel carson 's 1962 book that set off a movement to ban ddt and other pesticides .


Question: what book did rachel carson write in 1962 ?

`` he admitted what he did and accepted the sentence , '' he said .


Question: what book did rachel carson write in 1962 ?


Question: what book did rachel carson write in 1962 ?

the public outcry was tremendous ; the book led to the establishment of the environmental protection agency in 1970 , and the u.s. ban on ddt in 1972 .


Question: what book did rachel carson write in 1962 ?

the debate is occurring as malaria is making a deadly comeback , re-emerging in regions where it was once under control and killing many more people than it did decades ago , at least partly because of a reduction in ddt use .


Question: what book did rachel carson write in 1962 ?

the 1960s also gave us the health-food movement sparked by rachel carson 's examination of environmental pollution and the hippie lifestyle of communal , back-to-nature living .


Question: what book did rachel carson write in 1962 ?

1962 : john glenn says his first meal in space , applesauce eaten through a tube , is nothing to write home about .


Question: what book did rachel carson write in 1962 ?

finding two olives in your martini when you 're hungry , '' writes johnny carson in `` happiness is a dry martini '' -lrb- doubleday , 1965 -rrb- .


Question: what book did rachel carson write in 1962 ?

and so there are people gathering under the elms , waiting rather impatiently to give the book an indecent burial .


Question: what book did rachel carson write in 1962 ?

in it , from cover to cover , i had entered words i did not know _ useful everyday words such as `` inveigh '' and gaily unvarnished words such as `` gimcrackery. ''


Question: what book did rachel carson write in 1962 ?

and the conveyor of ideas has been , for half a millennium , the book _ taken for granted , under threat of extinction , unappreciated these days even in its last refuge , the public library .


Question: what book did rachel carson write in 1962 ?

modern feminism did not originate with betty friedan 's `` the feminine mystique , '' published in 1963 , but it achieved through friedan 's book a rejuvenated spirit .


Question: what book did rachel carson write in 1962 ?

carson was a biologist with the soul of a poet .


Question: what book did rachel carson write in 1962 ?

she had written elegantly about sea life , but was a stranger to the thunderings of oil men and lumber men and the harrumphing of politicians who did their bidding .


Question: what book did rachel carson write in 1962 ?

at roughly the same time , michael harrington 's book `` the other america '' was making us aware of poverty even before president lyndon johnson waged war on it .


Question: what book did rachel carson write in 1962 ?

the book has received considerable attention .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

meanwhile in egypt , the state-run newspaper al-gomhuriya has reported that the nile water behind the high dam at aswan has reached the maximum height permitted .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

divided into five segments _ tunnels , dams , skyscrapers , bridges and domes _ the project took him from the aswan high dam in egypt to the bowels of the holland tunnel .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

until the completion of the aswan high dam in 1971 , egypt periodically suffered flooding from the nile .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

the irrigation potential is estimated at 2.2 million feddans -lrb- 924,000 hectares -rrb- , equal to the capacity of the aswan high dam , which had added 30 percent to the total cultivable area of egypt when its ten-year construction was completed in 1970 .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

kuwait city -- saudi arabia saturday broke ground for the construction of the second largest dam in the middle east after the high dam of aswan in egypt .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

egypt used to suffer periodic flooding from the river nile until the completion of the aswan high dam .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

it was the second time since the high dam was built in 1971 that water has reached the maximum height of 178 meters -lrb- 196 yards -rrb- .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

i stayed at three of them : the old cataract in aswan ; the winter palace in luxor ; and the mena house in giza , just outside cairo .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

this was my favorite of the three hotels , in part because aswan is a sleepier place than either luxor or giza .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

abu simbel , the great rock temples that were dismantled and relocated to allow the building of the aswan dam , is a short plane ride away .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

the high dam itself and the philae temple , also rescued from drowning and moved to the island of agilkia , are closer ; still nearer is elephantine island , so named because it was a center for ivory trading in antiquity .


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decked out in arabian nights style , with one printed fabric over another and plump pillows to lean back on , it is available for high tea cruises and moonlight sails .


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a lavish stone complex , it pays tribute to a people whose villages were deliberately submerged , again to build the dam .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

the restaurant was inaugurated on dec.10 , 1902 , the day the cornerstone was laid for the first aswan dam , an event attended by heads of state from all over europe .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

at the winter palace , you sleep across the nile from the valley of the kings , where egyptian rulers sleep forever .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

under the glass of a low coffee table in the lobby is a display of egyptian faience bead necklaces in turquoise and gold , an incentive to step outside again and go shopping : luxor is crammed with jewelry stores of both souvenir and serious levels , and they 're open until at least 10 at night , long after the tombs and temples have closed .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

some dams , particularly in the pacific northwest , have prevented salmon from swimming upstream to their spawning grounds , contributing to the extinction of as many as 100 salmon species ; 500 workers died building the aswan dam .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

but excess water is now held back behind the dam in lake nasser .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

under the first stage , the 30-kilometer-long canal will be able to irrigate at least half a million feddans -lrb- 215,000 hectares -rrb- with water diverted from the aswan high dam through the toshki depression , where surplus water from the lake nasser has been accumulating .


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egyptian prime minister kamal el-ganzouri , in his speech , said the mammoth project would be funded through several means .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

of the total 300 billion egyptian pounds -lrb- 88 billion u.s. dollars -rrb- , the government 's contributions , only 20 percent of the development costs , are limited to providing the area with an infrastructure .


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the rest of the bills will be footed by international companies and egyptian and arab private sectors , he said .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

the dam , named after saudi king fahd , is built in the southern province of bisha .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

the dam with a height of 103 meters and width of 507 meters can reserve up to 325 million cubic meters of water .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

cairo , september 27 -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- egyptian minister of public works and water resources mahmoud abu zeid said sunday that the water level of the river nile is dropping gradually thanks to the flood diversion of the lake nasser .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

the water level in the man-made lake nasser behind the aswan high dam rose to record 180.43 meters sunday and a large amount of the excess water is being discharged through the toshka spillway to irrigate a swath of desert to the northwest of the dam .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

this is the second time since the dam was erected in 1971 that the nile water has been diverted to the toshka canal .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

the first time was in 1996 , when the water behind the dam hit a record level of 178 meters .


Question: what country is aswan high dam located in ?

the current diversion began early this month when the water exceeded the dam 's safety level of 175 meters .


Question: how many time zones are there in the world ?

woven together by satellite tv , the world 's nearly 200 countries , in their 24 time zones , became a jamboree of disparate cultures -- south pacific islanders singing handel 's `` hallelujah '' chorus , buddhist monks praying for peace in japan , a german choir singing in a church in nazareth , israel , and a huge french-made bell tolling a welcome in newport , ky. for each time zone entering 2000 .


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each hour , one of 24 clocks inside the pennsylvania convention center , representing time zones around the world , will strike midnight .


Question: how many time zones are there in the world ?

the world is divided into 24 time zones .


Question: how many time zones are there in the world ?

traveling the web : www. timessquare2000. com will cover year 2000 celebrations in all 24 time zones across the globe from 7 a.m .


Question: how many time zones are there in the world ?

the new decade arrived well before dawn here friday at peterson air force base , but there was more relief than celebration as the world 's 24 time zones began passing from the 20th century without nuclear conflagration .


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in washington , president clinton helped stow artifacts of 20th century america -- including army dog tags and a public library card -- into a time capsule to be opened at the 21st century 's end .


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philadelphia plans a 24-hour celebration beginning at 7 a.m. , dec. 31 .


Question: how many time zones are there in the world ?

confetti will float to the ground , and music and fanfare will feature a country in that time zone , where the calendar is actually turning to 2000 .


Question: how many time zones are there in the world ?

the time changes usually by an hour from zone to zone .


Question: how many time zones are there in the world ?

their presence on feb. 16 in fort lauderdale , fla. , will mark the first time the two have appeared together since the film 's debut in march 1970 .


Question: how many time zones are there in the world ?

from the american perspective , any moments of real concern had passed by the turn of the millennium at greenwich mean time , midnight in london .


Question: how many time zones are there in the world ?

every american missile system operates on greenwich mean time , which means precise timing is imperative for encryption and other programs around the world .


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but it also meant that the new year had passed without incident through all 11 times zones of russia , as well as through all of asia , the middle east and europe .


Question: what is the population of iceland ?

iceland , a european country and an island in the north atlantic ocean , has an area of 103,000 square kilometers and a population of about 270,000 .


Question: what is the population of iceland ?

it has a nearly homogeneous population , whittled down over the years by natural disaster and disease , carrying nearly the same genetic codes as the viking explorers who settled here more than 1,100 years ago .


Question: what is the population of iceland ?

first , iceland comes close to having what is known as a closed population , meaning that there has been little immigration to muddy the genetic pool over the centuries .


Question: what is the population of iceland ?

`` a homogeneous population with great genealogical and medical records is the scarcest resource in human genetics today , '' said jeffrey gulcher , decode 's vice president for research and development .


Question: what is the population of iceland ?

`` for instance , when you look at people who 've lived over the age of 95 and ask how they are clustered together in the population , it 's amazing how you can see that longevity is passed down from generation to generation .


Question: what is the population of iceland ?

`` it is not right to use a population as a commodity in this way , '' said jorunn erla eyjfjord , the head of molecular genetics at the icelandic cancer society .


Question: what is the population of iceland ?

`` what they 're doing probably wo n't hurt me personally , or iceland now , but i fear that we could be used as a well-defined guinea pig population in the future. ''


Question: what is the population of iceland ?

`` icelanders are few in number , so in the old times we doubled our population with tales of elves and fairies , '' he said in an interview at the presidential residence , bessastadir , located on a remote moor where snow dervishes and sea spume whip over bizarrely-shaped formations of lava rock .


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the population was regularly _ and heavily _ culled by famine , plague and earth cataclysms .


Question: what is the population of iceland ?

how many snps must be tested on how many people depends on how homogeneous the population being studied is , how many genes contribute to a particular disease , how frequent a particular genetic variation is , and how strong the effect of a particular gene is .


Question: what are pennies made of ?

1943 : due to copper shortage during world war ii , pennies are made of zinc -coated steel .


Question: what are pennies made of ?

in 1943 most pennies were made of steel .


Question: what are pennies made of ?

rare coin dealer larry spence -lrb- 454-3003 -rrb- says that during world war ii , copper was needed for the war effort , so 1943 pennies were made of steel .


Question: what are pennies made of ?

a few 1943 pennies -lrb- blank , s or d -rrb- were made of copper .


Question: what are pennies made of ?

supposedly it was to be made available to the public .


Question: what are pennies made of ?

a : you 're referring to `` image of an assassination : a new look at the zapruder film , '' a 45-minute , digitally enhanced version of an 8-mm home movie abraham zapruder made nov. 22 , 1963 , when kennedy 's motorcade passed the texas school book depository and dealey plaza in dallas .


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edwards recorded more than a dozen songs , but only three others made the top 20 list : `` please mr. sun , '' `` love is all we need '' and `` i really do n't want to know. ''


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a : that item generated considerable interest from people who have pennies from this era .


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mangum said he had been told by collectors that the last time one of these pennies was sold , in 1981 , it went for $ 10,000 .


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q : to the best of my memory , there was a law passed in the 1950s that made it illegal to put a refrigerator not in use outdoors without removing its doors to prevent children from playing inside and being suffocated .


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the law is not retroactive so does not apply to refrigerators made before 1956 .


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q : how do we get a question to the team that made `` the sixth sense '' ?


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a : sorry , lip life by neutrogena has not been made for four years .


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wash the quilt in the bathtub and dry on a rack or even over the shower cuby neutrogena has not been made for four years .


Question: in which city is the river seine ?

on saturday , the pack began their circuit at montparnasse rail station south of the river seine and ended in bercy , in eastern paris .


Question: in which city is the river seine ?

more than 3 million visitors come to see the exhibit at the renovated train station on the left bank of the seine river , which is one of paris ' main tourist attractions .


Question: in which city is the river seine ?

paris _ at the gare du nord , the sprawling rail station that looms over metropolitan paris one mile from the river seine , the revolution ushered in by the european union boards the world 's fastest train .


Question: in which city is the river seine ?

organized geographically , the chapters _ on montmartre , the seine river valley , both banks of the seine in paris and the river oise , to name a few _ are full of information , both historical and practical -lrb- like public transportation , hotels and restaurants -rrb- .


Question: in which city is the river seine ?

paris , august 6 -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- france will inaugurate its 36th bridge over the seine river flowing through paris -- the charles de gaulle bridge -- wednesday night .


Question: in which city is the river seine ?

according to the paris mayor 's office , the bridge , 208 meters long and 30 meters wide , will link up two areas of the city in the momentum of development on both sides of the river -- bercy on the right bank and paris -rive-gauche on the left bank , which has the great library of france nearby .


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diana was killed in a car crash early this morning at a paris road tunnel on the seine river bank .


Question: in which city is the river seine ?

paris , september 20 -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- a main automobile expressway along the seine river running across paris has been flooded since sunday night because of heavy rain .


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the expressway , voie georges pompidou , which is next to the river , was submerged by water from the tuileries park in central paris to the gare austerlitz railway station to the east of the city .


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orsay museum employees ended a two-week strike friday , finally giving impatient visitors a chance to see a prized collection of 19th century art .


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Question: in which city is the river seine ?

in belleville park , the highest point in the city , 120 vines of pinot meunier planted in 1993 produce about 300 bottles a year .


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pinot meunier is a principal grape of champagne , and one day , the city gardeners hope , these vines might produce a true sparkling wine .


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some 200 chardonnay and sauvignon blanc vines grow in a small city park on the rue lardenois in the northeast corner of the city .


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one of the private vineyards is n't exactly private ; it consists of 10 vines planted in 1934 that grow across the front of a firehouse on the rue blanche in the central part of the city .


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the association 's 200 members are city folk who grow wine grapes on terraces and balconies , in window boxes and tiny backyards .


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every year at harvest time , when melac beckons , they gather from all over the city , carrying their grapes in buckets , boxes and plastic bags .


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the merriment that all of this occasions intrigues a lot of other parisians , and it is because of this growing interest that the city mounted the exhibition , which is scheduled to run through march but may be extended .


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besides bercy park 's own vineyard , now neatly pruned , there are displays of winemaking equipment , information on all the city 's vineyards and classes on how to grow wine grapes for fun , if not for profit .


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the favored whites are perdin and chasselas de fontainebleau , and the reds are aladin , alphonse lavallee and brant , varieties that are hardy enough to withstand city living .


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in the middle ages , parisian wines were a staple of the city 's growing population , and as recently as world war ii , suburban vineyards like those in suresnes still produced wines commercially .


Question: in which city is the river seine ?

long before railroads carried wine north to the city from the midi , the rhone valley and burgundy , millions of gallons came up the river on barges to be blended , stored and bottled in stone warehouses .


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a small city of wine , bercy included the rue de bordeaux , the rue de macon , the rue de pommard and the rue de chambertin .


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so much a part of city life were the wine sheds that , as georges simenon 's fictional inspector maigret recalled , `` when we arrested drunks we wrote them up as ` bercys . '' '


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well into the 1960s , old-line wine companies still stored inexpensive bulk wine at bercy and bottled it for the city 's small grocery stores .


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one old building was converted into a gardening center where people can learn how to grow grapes in tough city conditions .


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sleek and luxurious , the `` thalys '' express rockets into the countryside at nearly 200 mph , reaching the eu headquarters city of brussels in 85 minutes .


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written by julian more and published by pavilion/trafalgar square -lrb- $ 19.95 for the paperback -rrb- , the book provides detailed itineraries for 30 walks and drives in and around the city , along routes well worn by monet , manet , cezanne , pissarro , sisley and their artistic brethren .


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through march 4 , the city will celebrate the culinary arts , performing arts and museums and lighting arts , with more than 2,000 artists participating .


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the first montreal international symposium on lighting will feature displays by lighting specialists at six parks throughout the city .


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under the guidance of the french chef paul bocuse , the festival also showcases the city 's cuisine .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

the names of hall of fame honorees are on permanent exhibit at the rock and roll hall of fame museum in cleveland , which opened in 1995 .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

`` it 's the last great rock 'n ' roll tour of the century , '' said robert santelli , a vice president at the rock and roll hall of fame and museum in cleveland .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

then came a push from houston businessman george turek to get johnson into cleveland 's rock and roll hall of fame .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

long before comedian drew carey was fitted for his first pair of black glasses in suburban brooklyn , ohio , and decades ahead of the rock and roll hall of fame becoming the city 's top tourist attraction , the browns owned cleveland .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

the musical opening of the show was shot three years ago at several well-known spots , including the rock and roll hall of fame and jacobs field , home of the cleveland indians .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

tambourine man `` -rrb- in 1965 as a member of the byrds , and is in the rock and roll hall of fame in cleveland as a member of the byrds and as one-third of crosby , stills and nash .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

the rock and roll hall of fame opened in cleveland .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

the museum `` just does n't deliver as dramatically as it should to meet the expectations audiences have for a cartoon museum , '' said dennis barrie , the museum 's former adviser , who was director of the $ 94 million rock and roll hall of fame and museum in cleveland .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

all are nominees for induction next year into the rock `n ' roll hall of fame in cleveland .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

`` terry stewart , the former head of marvel comics , has been appointed the director of the rock and roll hall of fame in hopes that he can save the financially slumping shrine in cleveland .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

at the urging of u.s. rep. howard berman , d - mission hills , hilary b. rosen , president and chief executive officer of the washington , d.c. -based association , said tuesday she will make it a priority to recommend the rock 'n ' roll legend from pacoima as a nominee next year to the rock and roll hall of fame in cleveland .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

although the rock and roll hall of fame and museum is in cleveland , most of the annual induction ceremonies have been held in new york city , the home of music-business executives whose companies can pay $ 1,500 to $ 2,500 per seat .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

like the rock and roll hall of fame in cleveland and the georgia music hall of fame in macon , it plans to have annual induction ceremonies for artists before it builds an actual museum .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

the show , originally mounted by the rock and roll hall of fame in cleveland and changed only minimally -lrb- a few graffiti art pieces were added -rrb- by kevin stayton , a curator at the brooklyn museum , was sponsored in part by def jam records .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

three singers who dominated radio in the 1970s -- bruce springsteen , paul mccartney and billy joel -- joined the rock and roll hall of fame on monday along with dusty springfield , who died two weeks ago .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

other inductees included `` superfly '' singer curtis mayfield , already in the hall as a member of the impressions ; del shannon , who made `` runaway '' a hit in 1961 ; and the gospel group the staples singers .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

springsteen was judged rock 'n ' roll 's savior upon the release of `` born to run '' in 1975 and hit his commercial peak with `` born in the usa '' in 1984 .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

under hall of fame rules , artists are n't eligible until 25 years after their first record , and the e street band did n't receive billing on a springsteen record until 1986 .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

mccartney , whose former songwriting partner john lennon is also in the hall for his solo work , said george harrison and ringo starr should be next .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

the e street band did not join springsteen as inductees because under hall of fame rules , artists are n't eligible until 25 years after their first record , and the band did n't receive billing on a springsteen record until 1986 .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

the freehold native is performing 15 sold-out concerts in his home state before hitting other cities across the nation .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

while most rock stars ' heyday is in their youth , blues and boogie pianist johnnie johnson is approaching his 75th birthday and his popularity is on the rise .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

and his `` father of rock 'n ' roll : the johnnie 'b .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

it took years and some crusading by modern rock musicians to push johnson into the spotlight .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

his biggest break came in 1987 during the compilation of a chuck berry documentary called `` hail , hail rock 'n ' roll . ''


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

but the hall of fame said it did n't have a category in which to fit johnson .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

the duo wrote rock 'n ' roll classics like `` mabelline '' and `` roll over , beethoven . '' johnson composed the music on piano , berry converted it to guitar and wrote the lyrics .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

they blended blues , boogie and country to form the genre that helped shape rock music in the early 1960s .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

`` when rock 'n ' roll came in strong , it was really the guitar players that brought it in -- chuck and elvis presley , '' johnson said .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

the greatest comeback in nfl history is nearly complete .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

and when the expansion browns take the field in their traditional , plain orange helmets and all-white uniforms for monday night 's hall of fame game against the dallas cowboys in canton , ohio , one of the league 's signature cities will officially have its beloved team back .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

but their close calls -- `` red right 88 '' -lrb- brian sipe 's end-zone interception against oakland in 1981 -rrb- , the drive -lrb- john elway 's 98-yarder in 1987 -rrb- , and the fumble -lrb- ernest byner 's at the goal line in denver in 1988 -rrb- -- epitomized the struggling city , which became a national joke when its river caught fire .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

once the shock wore off , clevelanders wiped away their tears and began to fight .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

no , it 's carey taking a break from filming to acknowledge the thousands of clevelanders who came decked out in orange and brown to play browns fans for the show 's sept. 29 episode on the team 's return to the national football league .


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the big guy with the crew cut and glasses is getting a welcome from his hometown not unlike the one the city gave its beloved browns after a three - season absence from the nfl .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

he went bowling -- a favorite pastime -- and watched the browns win at home for the first time since the old team moved to baltimore .


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carey said he realizes how popular he has become every time he returns home to his old brooklyn neighborhood where he owns his childhood house .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

aerosmith , eric clapton and queen head up the list of 15 nominees for induction next year into the rock and roll hall of fame and museum .


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clapton , the rock and blues guitar player who has previously been inducted twice as a member of the yardbirds and cream , released his first solo album in 1970 .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

musicians are eligible for nomination to the hall 25 years after the release of their first recording .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

aerosmith , which released its self-titled debut album in 1973 , is still producing hits with its blues-laced , hard rock style .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

the british band queen gained fame in the '70s and '80s with a theatrical style of rock , including hits `` we will rock you , '' `` we are the champions '' and `` bohemian rhapsody . ''


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also nominated were : the o'jays ; soul performer solomon burke ; earth , wind & fire ; doo-wop groups the flamingos and the moonglows ; the lovin ' spoonful ; jazz-rock group steely dan ; rock 'n ' roll pioneer ritchie valens ; heavy metal act black sabbath ; singer-guitarist bonnie raitt ; singer-songwriter lou reed and james taylor .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

the list of nominees was released tuesday by hall of fame officials .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

ballots will be mailed to more than 1,000 artists , producers , journalists and music industry executives by the new york -based rock and roll hall of fame foundation .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

rock star melissa etheridge has revealed the paternity of the two children she shares with her lesbian partner , and it turns out he 's a two-time rock hall of famer .


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35 years ago : the beatles met elvis presley at his home in bel air , calif .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

founder mort walker , the creator of beetle bailey , who brought the museum to boca raton when it outgrew its suburban new york home , said the `` biggest challenge is the same one facing every other museum in the country _ raising money .


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from 1989-1994 , the tequesta resident was associate director of the rock and roll museum under dennis barrie .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

the festival will celebrate comedy , with a tribute to blake edwards , including a showing of his 1968 film `` the party , '' plus screenings of chaplin 's `` city lights , '' billy wilder 's `` some like it hot '' and richard lester 's `` help ! ''


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new york _ three new york premieres and two pulitzer prize winners will be featured on sunday at carnegie hall when paul lustig dunkel and the american composers orchestra open their season .


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`` according to city hall , mayor giuliani has performed over 120 weddings since he became mayor .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

`` fourteen years after being fired as the manager of the new york yankees , hall -of- famer yogi berra made up with george steinbrenner .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

los angeles _ the campaign by his family and supporters to get ritchie valens inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame has received a boost from a local congressman and the head of the recording industry association of america .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

`` ritchie valens deserves to be nominated and i 'm going to work with the congressman on that , '' said rosen , a board member of the rock and roll hall of fame foundation .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

valens ' aunt , ernestine reyes of suburban pacoima , who has been working since 1995 to get valens inducted into the hall of fame , said she was hopeful that rosen 's support would bring valens the recognition he deserves .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

`` i ca n't express how much he deserves to be in the rock and roll hall of fame , '' said reyes .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

valens , who died at the age of 17 in an iowa plane crash on feb. 3 , 1959 , was nominated for the first time last september , though he had been eligible for the hall of fame since 1983 .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

berman , who last spring began actively campaigning on valens ' behalf by lobbying the rock and roll hall of fame nominating committee , sent letters to rosen and her fellow board members last february , seeking their support .


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`` many of valens ' friends and contemporaries , including little richard , eddie cochran , buddy holly and jerry lee lewis , have already been inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

the rock and roll hall of fame foundation presents all eligible artists to a nominating committee , then selects the nominees through a series of votes .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

new york _ rock 's softer side was celebrated at the 15th annual rock and roll hall of fame ceremony monday night at the grand ballroom of the waldorf-astoria , as the hall this year recognized performers whose music is comforting , not confrontational .


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the hall 's new additions included eric clapton , who has already been named twice to the hall as a member of the yardbirds and cream , and bonnie raitt .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

both apprenticed in the blues , then moved toward rock and pop .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

highlights from the ceremony are to be shown on the cable network vh1 on wednesday at 9 p.m. and simulcast on the westwood one radio network , including q104 in new york city .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

the event , with performances by the hall members and a closing jam session , has grown more controlled than it was in its early years , with teleprompters now being used .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

the hall even turned down vh1 's suggestion to use a celebrity host .


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this year , the hall added a new category to recognize the backup musicians who were the backbone of many indelible hits .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

a voting body of 1,000 musicians , executives and history-minded observers chooses the hall 's members , who become eligible 25 years after the release of their first recording .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

clive davis , the president of arista records , followed up his grammy award this year for producing santana 's album `` supernatural '' by joining the hall in its nonperformer category .


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a future ceremony may be held in london in a year when british rockers are inducted , said suzan evans , the hall 's executive director .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

this year , the hall of fame followed the lead of the rhythm-and-blues foundation and the national academy of recording arts and sciences , which gives the grammy awards , by starting a program for needy musicians .


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it has earmarked $ 100,000 for members of the hall who need help with medical bills or living expenses , and it hopes to expand the program in future years .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

true to hip-hop 's origins in battles between competing artists , there is not one group but two attempting to honor the music with a hall of fame .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

on thursday , an organization in manhattan formally introduced itself as the hip-hop hall of fame .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

last june , mayor ernest davis of mount vernon , n.y. , announced that he is converting an old firehouse into a hip-hop hall of fame , which will be unrelated to the manhattan project .


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meanwhile , the rock and roll hall of fame has been showing for five months what it claims is the world 's first major museum exhibition on hip-hop culture .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

rapper chuck d , whose group public enemy brought blistering politics to hip-hop and who contributed artifacts to the rock and roll hall of fame 's exhibit , thinks the recognition should have come a long time ago .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

back in manhattan , the spokesman for the `` official '' hip-hop hall of fame says it will have its first induction ceremony of artists _ voted on by fans _ by the end of the year .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

`` hey , this is a big world , '' said davis , who wants his museum , which he expects to be under construction for a year , to be a combination hall of fame , history exhibit and job training center .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

o n t h e w e b : the site for the hip-hop hall of fame in manhattan : www. ihiphophalloffame . com .


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orvil m. minott , 24 , a rock and hip-hop musician , walked to the museum with a group of `` at risk '' teen-agers he works with at a nonprofit group in nearby flatbush .


Question: what city is the home to the rock and roll hall of fame ?

but others who consider themselves mainstream viewers , like jan girard , 54 , a home furnishings designer from the williamsburg section of brooklyn , said they thought that the exhibition was created with hip-hop fans in mind .


Question: who won two gold medals in skiing in the olympic games in calgary ?

some italian ski officials and journalists have complained for 6 months that tomba spent too much time on the party circuit last summer after winning two olympic gold medals at calgary , but he seems to be on his way back .


Question: who won two gold medals in skiing in the olympic games in calgary ?

tomba , 23 , who has apparently regained the form that earned him two gold medals in the 1988 winter olympics at calgary , and the other male racers are scheduled to compete in a super- g today at hemsedal , norway , and in a slalom monday at salen , sweden .


Question: who won two gold medals in skiing in the olympic games in calgary ?

the so-called big three -- marc girardelli , pirmin zurbriggen and alberto tomba -- went head-to-head on vail mountain thursday in a giant slalom that was also one of the last stops on ingemar stenmark 's farewell tour .


Question: who won two gold medals in skiing in the olympic games in calgary ?

as for the others , girardelli finished fourth ; stenmark came in sixth , and tomba , the 1988 olympic giant slalom gold medalist , wound up seventh after bouncing up from a near-spill in the first run .


Question: who won two gold medals in skiing in the olympic games in calgary ?

so , zurbriggen , who was second in wednesday 's super- g race , tomba and stenmark have just one more shot left at a gold medal , in the slalom on sunday .


Question: who won two gold medals in skiing in the olympic games in calgary ?

what most people here were talking about between runs was tomba 's spectacular recovery .


Question: who won two gold medals in skiing in the olympic games in calgary ?


Question: who won two gold medals in skiing in the olympic games in calgary ?

girardelli , who has already won a gold medal for luxembourg in the combined , said , `` tomba should be favored in the slalom , but i am making progress this week and am ready to go , too . ''


Question: who won two gold medals in skiing in the olympic games in calgary ?

after winning a world cup slalom thursday at geilo , norway , alberto tomba told the associated press : `` it 's mother 's day in italy today , so i dedicate this victory to my mother and all women in italy . ''


Question: who won two gold medals in skiing in the olympic games in calgary ?

none of them , however , could head off blond , wiry rudolf nierlich , who gave austria its second gold medal of the world alpine ski championships .


Question: who won two gold medals in skiing in the olympic games in calgary ?

zurbriggen , who won this event in the 1987 championships on home snow at crans - montana , switzerland , managed to escape with the bronze , just behind nierlich 's roommate , helmut mayer .


Question: who won two gold medals in skiing in the olympic games in calgary ?

of course , nierlich will be in that race , too , and his rise to prominence here is not really a surprise , since he has won two world cup races this season -- a giant slalom at kirchberg , austria , and a slalom at wengen , switzerland .


Question: who won two gold medals in skiing in the olympic games in calgary ?

but despite a problem near the middle of the course , nierlich was only 0.45 seconds slower and ended up getting the gold by a 1.62-second margin with a total time of 2 : 37.66 .


Question: who won two gold medals in skiing in the olympic games in calgary ?

stenmark , the great swede who will retire just a few days before his 33rd birthday next month during the world cup finals at shigakogen , japan , after posting a record 85 victories on the circuit , skied two even runs , the sixth fastest each time , for his sixth place .


Question: who won two gold medals in skiing in the olympic games in calgary ?

`` i am skiing for my own pleasure now , '' he said after earning his second medal in 2 days .


Question: who won two gold medals in skiing in the olympic games in calgary ?

two of the older hands , felix mcgrath and tiger shaw , did n't fare as well .


Question: who won two gold medals in skiing in the olympic games in calgary ?

southland competitors contributed substantially to the u.s. team 's success -- which included 35 gold medals to west germany 's 16 -- in several divisions :