According to the April 15, 1997, story in The New York Times, Farrakhan praised Rendell before 3, 000 people at the anti-violence rally for ''his courage and strength to riseabove emotion and differences that might be between us or our communities.
Is America entering a new era in which ideaological oppononets riseabove the rhetoric and sit down at the negotiating table to hammer out their differences in lieu of pointed media and political attacks?