Jerry Jr. then sat down with creditors, including Household Retail Services and Stephens of Little Rock, Arkansas, and worked out a seven-year repayment plan.

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Mann named Hale, Dozhier and University of Arkansas Little Rock professor Jimmy Peck as members of a right-wing inner circle, along with David Henderson and Steve Boynton, who she identified as the "Washington" end of the Richard Mellon Scaiffe-funded operation she witnessed.

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The 1958 Cooper ruling was a case out of Arkansas that followed the 1957-58 civil strife after black students were admitted to a Little Rock High School.

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When President Bill Clinton arrived in Houston on September 26th after his trip to Little Rock in Arkansas for the 40th anniversary of that city's school-desegregation crisis in 1957, he chose to speak not at swish Rice University but at a community college.

ECONOMIST: Race and education

Mr. James Riady, a scion of the wealthy Indonesian clan that owns the huge Lippo group -- and, at one time, a tiny bank in Little Rock, capital of Mr. Clinton's home state of Arkansas -- has apparently been giving a lot of money to the president's Democratic Party since 1991.

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Memphis, and other southern cities such as Little Rock in Arkansas and Birmingham in Alabama, duly brought in some vigorous affirmative-action programmes.

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