The outcome, in doubt until the last moment, was seen as a sign of racial healing in the former capital of the Confederacy.

"Our biggest problem is the racial healing that needs to take place."

There's never been a white candidate for president more focused on racial healing, yet the black vote is going to Al Gore.

Black, Hispanic, Asian and white residents reached out to each other to begin a process of racial healing.

He promises to push for stricter campaign finance laws, and to continue promoting his ideas to achieve "racial healing."

In some ways the climate makes Mr. Clinton's appeal for racial healing, while important, sound oddly out of sync.

There has to be racial healing.

In a climate that cries out for racial healing, he derided even a modest civil rights law.

They deserve to succeed, he said, given that sports have provided some of the most symbolic and visible racial healing in post-apartheid South Africa.

They add, "Who thought it was a good idea to make Jesse Jackson the arbiter of racial healing?