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Title: Opera tells how Georgia racism backfired (AP)
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Georgia Southern University student Pedro Carreras, right, performs Wednesday, April 18, 2007, in his role as the flamboyant former Georgia governor Eugene Talmadge along with Jarrad Howard, left, during a dress rehearsal of the opera 'A Scholar Under Siege'' at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Ga.  The opera was composed by Georgia Southern University music professor Michael Braz and tells the true story of how Talmadge orchestrated the firings of the dean of education at the University of Georgia, and Marvin Pittman, president of Georgia Teachers College, which later became Georgia Southern University. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)AP - At the end of Act One, the tenor wearing a white suit and trademark red suspenders clutches his fat cigar in a smoldering rage.


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Date Added: April 19, 2007 07:02:00 PM
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