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King’s Temple Hosts Festival
K in g 'sT em p leC h ristian C en te r
is inviting the com m unity to join
them for a concert in the park.
A day o f food, music and testi-
m onials is planned W ednesday,
July 25 at Dawson Park, located
at North Stanton Street and Wil-
liams Avenue.
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People
Christeen Johnson
presents a heart defibril
lator to Melissa Knight
on behalf of First Steps
Sports Academy, the
organization that hosted
Community Health Care
in the Park on Saturday
at Irving Park in north
east Portland. Johnson
presented the life-saving
device in honor of the
Eddie Barnett Jr. Foun
dation, the non-profit
she founded in her 15-
year-old son's name
after he died of heart
failure during a basket
ball game in 2005.
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Biases explored
in new poll
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M ost A m ericans believe their
fellow citizens hold strong biases
against m inorities, according to a
new landm ark poll by Zogby Inter
national.
The survey o f 10,387 A merican
adults, one o f the m ost com prehen
sive ever conducted on prejudice,
according to Zogby, explores atti
tudes about race, religion, age,
sexual orientation, gender, physi
cal appearance and politics.
W hile67 percent o f respondents
claim ed to have no preference them
selves between a white, black or
M iddle Eastern clerk in a conve expect A frican A m ericans to be
nience store, 71 percent said, most involved and 55 percent expected
Americans would seek out the white blacks w ould be involved in a drug
bust. But for non-violent crim es
clerk.
Just I percent said A m ericans’ like identity theft and insurance
first choice would be to approach a fraud, m ore than h alf said that m ost
black clerk, w hile less than 0.5 per A m erican s w ould ex p ect these
cent said the same for an M iddle crim inals to be white.
T he poll also asked w hich politi
Eastern clerk. And yet, ironically,
55 percent o f respondents said race cal party is responsible for the grav
relations have im proved over the est problem s facing the world. Re
publicans w ere blam ed 62 percent
past 10 years.
O ther results on race w here re for war. For other issues like preju
spondents picked from am ong sev dice, poverty and corruption the
eral races show just how m uch race Republican Party was polled as the
im pro v em en ts m ay not be im dem on for m ore than h alf o f the
resp o n d en ts.
proved.
H ow ever w hen it cam e to crim e,
In the event o f a shooting, 73
percent said most Americans would 42 percent blam ed D em ocrats and
23 percent blam ed Republicans.
“O ver my years o f polling. I'v e
learned that A m ericans tend to o f
fer socially acceptable responses
when questioned on theirow n views
about race and prejudice. T h at's
why in this poll we predom inantly
asked people about 'm ost A m eri
can s’" view s on race and preju
dice," said Pollster John Zolby. “We
believe this provides a far more
accurate w indow into how people
really think about these issues.
A m ericans are more forthcom ing
w hen discussing the problem in the
context o f their neighbors’ lives
than in the context o f their own
lives.”
T he p o ll’s m argin o f error was
p lu so r m inus one percentage point.
Doctor Cleared
in Katrina Deaths
stayed at their posts and served
people most in need,” Poe said.
If another hurricane threatened,
Pou added, she w ould stay on duty
(AP) — A grand jury in New in a hospital, but she is concerned
O rleans refused on Tuesday to in her case will keep other medical
dict a doctor accused o f murdering professionals from rem aining with
four seriously ill hospital patients patients during storms.
"All o f us need to rem em ber the
w ith drug injections during the
desperate afterm ath o f H urricane m agnitude o f human suffering that
Katrina, closing the books on the occurred in the city o f New O rleans
only m ercy-killing case to em erge in the w ake o f H urricane K atrina so
we can be assured that
from the storm.
th
i s never happens agai n
Dr. A nna Pou ac
and
that no health care
know ledged adm inis
p
r
o
fe
s s io n a l s h o u ld
tering medication to the
ever
be
falsely accused
patients but insisted
in
a
rush
to judgm ent,"
she did so only to re
she
said.
lieve pain.
Regarding her feel
Pou and tw o nurses
ings
tow ard the attor
were arrested last sum
ney
general,
Poe said
m er a fte r A tto rn e y
she
"puts
his
fate in
General C harles Foti
G
od's
hands."
concluded they gave Dr. Anna Pou
Charges against the
"lethal co ck tails" to
four patients at the llooded-out, nurses, Lori BudoandChcri Landry,
sweltering Memorial M edical C en were dropped after they were co m
pelled to testify last month before
ter after the A ugust 2(M)5 storm.
At a n ew s co n fe re n ce, Pou the grand jury under legal guide
fought back tears as she read a lines that kept their testim ony from
prepared statem ent. She refused to being used against them.
M any peo p le in N ew O rlean s
answ er questions about what hap
pened at the hospital because of believed the three acted heroically
lawsuits filed by families o f three u nder p u n ish in g co n d itio n s. Last
w eek, a gro u p o f d o cto rs and
patients.
"Today’sevents are not a triumph nurses held a rally on the a n n i
but a moment of remembrance for versary o f P ou's arrest, and h u n
those who lost their lives during the d red s o f peo p le tu rn ed out to
storm, and a tribute to all those who show support.
Grand Jury says
‘no’ to charges
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