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Filename: A1-MAIN-AJCD0521-2TWO Date/Time created: May 21 2008 1:43:01:663AM Username: SPEED4 Wednesday, May 21, 2008 MAIN 1A 2DOT 1A Cyan Magenta Yellow Black *SUZ21OA001KB* 1A $EGL+*A3))*=4$ Cyan Magenta Yellow Black 2DOT File name: A1-MAIN-AJCD0521-2TWO Date/Time created: May 21 2008 1:43:01:663AM Username: SPEED4 MAIN Wednesday THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION CHECK FOR BREAKING NEWS UPDATES AT AJC.COM V1 Paved Carter’s road to the White House By DREW JUBERA [email protected] and TOM BENNETT He was the shrewd, sharp-witted son of Albany, the fun-loving fra- ternity brother at the University of Georgia and the precocious author of a plan to take the White House, written for a Plains farmer who stunned the nation and became the 39th president of the United States. At age 34, he served Jimmy Carter as one of the youngest White House chiefs of staff ever. He also survived multiple bouts with cancer and wrote a best-seller about his fights to overcome them. He and his wife founded camps for children with cancer and juvenile diabetes. Hamilton Jordan died Tues- day night at age 63, after a final battle with mesothelioma, a form of cancer. His longtime friend from child- hood, Jay Beck, confirmed the death in an e-mail, saying, “Our dear friend Hamilton Jordan passed away at approximately 7:30 p.m. on Tues- day. He was comfortable and sur- rounded by his family. His son Ham- ilton, Jr. got back home from Europe in time to be with his father.” During Carter’s turbulent single term, Jordan, from whom the rest of the country learned to pronounce HAMILTON JORDAN: 1944-2008 Dead at 63, Jordan created the master plan that launched Jimmy Carter’s national career. ➤ Please see JORDAN, A14 HYOSUB SHIN / Staff Hamilton Jordan was one of the youngest White House chiefs of staff and one of former President Jimmy Carter’s closest advisers. This portrait of him was taken earlier this year before the Atlanta Press Club’s Newsmaker Luncheon in Atlanta. COUNTDOWN 2008 ]hèg!gh]``!cb By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JEFF ZELENY New York Times Des Moines, Iowa — Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday took a big step toward becoming the Democratic pres- idential nominee, amassing enough additional delegates to claim an all but insurmountable advantage in his race against Sen. Hillary Clinton. While Clinton’s campaign contin- ued to make a case that she could pre- vail, Obama used the results from Dem- ocratic contests in Kentucky and Oregon to move into a new phase of the cam- paign in which he will face different challenges. Those include bringing Clin- ton’s supporters into his camp; winning over elements of the Democratic coali- tion like working-class whites, Hispan- ics and Jews; and fending off attacks from Sen. John McCain, the presump- tive Republican nominee, especially on national security. Obama’s obstacles were underlined by a lopsided defeat in Kentucky, where just half of the Democratic voters said Kennedy in ght of his life with brain cancer By JONATHAN WEISMAN and PAUL KANE Washington Post Washington — Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), the liberal icon who has spent more than four decades at the forefront of social change efforts in Con- gress, has been diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor, physi- cians at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital said Tuesday. A biopsy of a portion of Ken- nedy’s brain identified a malig- nant glioma as the cause of the seizure that hospitalized him Saturday, according to a state- ment by Lee Schwamm, the hos- pital’s vice chairman of neu- rology, and Larry Ronan, the 76-year-old’s primary-care physician. The prognosis for patients is poor, according to the National Institutes of Health. News of the diagnosis Ofcer in fatal ’06 raid guilty of one charge By STEVE VISSER [email protected] Arthur Bruce Tesler’s acquit- tal on two of three charges Tues- day may have spared him a long prison term for his role in the killing of a 92-year-old woman — but a spectator at his trial said the Almighty would have the last word. “I put it all in God’s hands,” said Esther Woltz as she waited on the Fulton County jury’s ver- dict for the Atlanta police detec- tive. The jury acquitted Tesler on two charges from the illegal 2006 narcotics raid in which officers shot and killed Kathryn Johnston in her northwest Atlanta home. It found him guilty of lying in an official investigation in the cover-up of police wrongdoing that followed the shooting. “It is not like anyone intended to hurt her, but that’s what came out of it,” Woltz said. “Right will win out.” ➤ Please see TESLER, A18 ➤ Please see TUMOR, A10 Clinton wins Kentucky, but Obama touts delegate lead POUYA DIANAT / Staff Even the Braves headed for cover as severe weather pounded the metro area Tuesday. The worst of the storm was in Cherokee County. Metro, B1 Baseball-sized hail fell INSIDE ➤ Please see DEMOCRATS, A16 INSIDE, A19 Students’ state math exam scores help determine whether schools meet required federal No Child Left Behind testing goals. Early results show about 40 percent of all Georgia eighth-graders failed this year’s math test.State Superintendent of Schools Kathy Cox expects more middle schools to miss those goals. The law punishes schools that repeatedly fail and rewards those that succeed. Failing schools face such severe sanctions as: ➤ Give students free tutoring ➤ Make all teachers reapply for their jobs ➤ Being taken over by the state Did faulty test fail kids? By LAURA DIAMOND [email protected] Teachers and parents accused the Georgia Department of Edu- cation on Tuesday of developing defective tests that contributed to a high failure rate on social studies and math tests given ear- lier this year. In a dramatic drop from last year’s Criterion-Refer- enced Competency Test results, only 20 to 30 percent of Geor- gia’s sixth- and seventh-grad- ers passed the state social studies exam, according to preliminary results. In math, about 60 per- cent of eighth-graders passed. Actual scores won’t be released until next month, but teachers and students say they knew when the tests were given in February and March that exam questions didn’t match what was taught in class. Students who studied European history said the test asked about Southeast Asia and Africa. Parent Laurine Eidson called the dramatic drop in scores ➤ Please see TEST, A19 SCHOOL UPROAR Big drop in scores raises questions about whether exams matched what was taught in class. VUhhm!gi[[Ygh]cbg! k\Uh!i[U!UbX!hYW\!bYYX!hc!Xc The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Copyright © 2008, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2008 ONLINE AT AJC.COM | 50¢ ●● IN SPORTS ]bXmèg!gh]``![ch!]h \Y!U[Yg!Vih!XcYgbèh![Yh!c`X IN LIVING Partly cloudy 78°/ 56° C8 INSIDE TODAY Transported to marriage The relationship created headlines, now it’s headed for the wedding pages. Gena Abra- ham, state Trans- portation Commis- sioner, will marry former Transpor- tation Board Chair- man Mike Evans. Evans resigned from the board when the relation- ship became public. Metro, B1 Dawgs have day on the court Georgia beats Texas to become the national tennis champs for the second year in a row. Sports, D1 Home Depot profits dive Profits for the Atlanta-based retailer were down 66 percent com- pared to the same period last year. Business, C1 ABBY E2 CLASSIFIEDS F1 COMICS E6 EDITORIALS A21 LEGAL NOTICES B4 MOVIES E8 OBITUARIES B5 SUDOKU E6 TELEVISION E3 WEATHER C8 For home delivery, call 404-522-4141, 1-800-933-9771 VOL. 60, NO. 142 80 PAGES, 7 SECTIONS FEATURES MAIN NEWS A METRO B BUSINESS C SPORTS D LIVING E SECTIONS 0 …… 57 ….. > 300 Moderate AIR QUALITY The AJC uses recycled newsprint. Viadm! f]XY!Zcf! U]fdcfh Atlanta’s airport is an increas- ing source of aggravation for passengers, according to a new study. Metro, B1 SCORES Braves 6 Mets 1 Braves 6 Mets 2
