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Friday, February 2, 2007
Any Georgia Rodins? Here’s your big shot
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The resolution clearing the way for the erection of a statue to Zell Bryan Miller has already sparked the creative juices. In today’s paper, one letter writer suggests a statue of the former senator and governor sitting on George Bush’s lap.
Here at the Insider, we’re all about channeling that creativity. Got an idea for how Zell should be commemorated? If you can get it down in a sketch or on a graphics program, or take a picture of what you have in mind, you can upload a photo here and we’ll consider running it.
Keep it clean: we reserve the right not to run any proposals that cross the political/artistic line. But have fun.
Kind of like Monica changed her name, only different
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jack Ellis, the irascible mayor of Macon, will soon no longer be that. Not mayor, although his term expires this year. He won’t be Jack.
After becoming a Sunni Muslim during a December ceremony in West Africa, Ellis is working to legally change his name to Hakim Mansour Ellis. This according to an Associated Press report out of Macon.
Ellis was raised Christian, but said he’d been studying the Quran for years and that his new religion was originally practiced by his ancestors before they were brought to North America as slaves.
“Why does one become a Christian?” Ellis said. “You do it because it feels right. It’s the right thing for you to do. … To me it’s no big deal. But people like to know what you believe in. And this is what I believe in.”
At the request of his two of his daughters, Ellis said he will keep his last name the same.
