Word: mississippi
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While I was heartened to see that Adam A. Sofen decided to share the insights he learned during his visits with the hopelessly backward people of the Mississippi Delta (Opinion, July 9), I feel I must challenge a few of his assertions...
...some reason, Sofen seems genuinely shocked that the museum he visited in Mississippi didn't echo the anti-South bias he had been taught in history class...
...when my family planned a trip to the Mississippi Delta--"the cradle of the Civil War," in Paul Simon's words--I was skeptical of what I might find. After all, Mississippi seemed like the epicenter of the South: the Magnolia State, the second state to secede, the home of President Davis, the state that even today sports a Confederate banner on its flag...
While his ultimate aspirations for the St. Francis Foundation are not clear, the fund was his scam's undoing. State regulators balked when the Virgin Islands-registered Foundation sought to take over U.S. insurance companies. But by early May, when Mississippi and Tennessee regulators began seeking the return of assets from Frankel's Liberty National, Frankel was gone, leaving behind, among other things, a half-million-dollar charge for jet fuel on his credit card. At his house, FBI agents recovered astrological charts intended to answer, among other questions, "Will I go to jail...
Harvard is in Cambridge, not Boston. But try telling that to Grandpa Bob back in Cuddlefish Creek, Mississippi...