Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard is in Cambridge, not Boston. But try telling that to Grandpa bob back in Cuddlefish Creek, Mississippi...
KIRK FORDICE Hypocrisy alert! Mississippi Governor and Clinton critic leaves wife for another woman...
...start traveling the South in a beat-up 1929 Ford with a colleague, banging out legal papers in the car on a manual typewriter. Taking on Jim Crow, the South's entrenched regime of racial segregation, was dangerous work. When Marshall made the rounds of black schools in Mississippi, documenting their shacklike buildings and paltry textbooks, the state N.A.A.C.P. president arranged to have a hearse filled with armed men follow Marshall's car for protection...
...After a brief winning interlude--a 7-2 decision over Richmond in its home opener--the Crimson took to the road against highly touted Mississippi and Vanderbilt, and despite some gutsy play, was trounced 9-0 by each...
...shooting ends this compassionate, clear-eyed, expertly written first novel, a death that several lives have been stumbling toward for a quarter-century. Ned Rose is the title figure, a no-hoper in early middle age, who checks the oxygen levels in the 16 ponds of a Mississippi catfish farm. Daisy is his estranged sister. They are poor and white, though not white trash. Mack Bell owns the farm and owns Ned too. Mack has labor troubles. He summons Ned, as he has been doing since high school. Retribution explodes in the blast of a gun. Daisy, a figure strong...