Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's the distance she traveled when she transferred from North Carolina to Harvard in 1998, a little more than a year after she and her Tar Heel team had beaten Harvard 78-53 in the first round of the 1997 NCAA tournament...
...especially sweet for Johnson because it was in front of Jones and Hunter, two friends from her days back at the University of North Carolina before she transferred to Harvard last year...
Bush's TV ads, which have begun airing in New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina, showcase McKinnon's fondness for retro black-and-white footage and jittery, MTV-style editing. McKinnon took an unconventional path to his current job: as a teenager, he ran away to Nashville, Tenn., with dreams of becoming a country-music star; he wrote songs under Kris Kristofferson's tutelage and almost had one of his numbers recorded by Elvis Presley. "But Elvis passed away," says McKinnon ruefully. On making the switch from music to politics, he observes, "I turned to show business for ugly people...
Tart-tongued South Carolina Democrat Fritz Hollings, one of Domenici's predecessors as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, decried all talk of surpluses as "a circus act if I've ever seen one." Said he: "Instead of the deficit and debt going down, they're going up." His point: while the government is no longer borrowing from Social Security, it is still borrowing heavily from trust funds for Medicare, pensions for military and civilian government employees, highway building and other things. Without those nonpublic borrowings, he contended, the government ran a deficit of $127.8 billion last fiscal year...
...suing Microsoft are Democrats, the company has been an eager supporter of a new outfit that started in midyear, the Republican Attorneys General Association. Housed within the R.N.C., the group will develop policies with G.O.P. principles and support Republican A.G. candidates, says chairman Charlie Condon, attorney general of South Carolina. Among those principles: letting the free market be free. Condon, the only state attorney general to drop off the Microsoft case, won't say how much the company donated to the group. But he isn't embarrassed about the money--or about the $3,500 he solicited and got from...