Word: jacksonism
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Like the equally driven Jackson and Wayans families, the Williams sisters are Jehovah's Witnesses. Despite their arrogance about tennis, once they are off the court and off the subject, they are polite, well rounded and better educated than most of their competitors. They never curse. Serena, in fact, buys her rap albums at Wal-Mart because the bad words have been excised. For women known for their brashness, they are sensitive to coarseness. They lecture the kids in their fashion class about the negative influence of foul-mouthed cable-TV shows like South Park...
...Tennessee, Republican Bill Frist was testing out another line. The Senator sat down early last Thursday morning with about two-dozen cotton farmers at a University of Tennessee agricultural research center in Jackson, which is 85 miles northeast of Memphis. Tennessee grows 660,000 acres of cotton, but farmers are in trouble, they told Frist, who was taking notes. American cotton consumption is down, the farmers complained, cotton prices are dropping, a stronger dollar means U.S. cotton can?t compete overseas and cotton mills are closing...
...Gore must take comfort in the story of Andrew Jackson. A Tennessean like Gore, Jackson won the popular vote in the presidential election of 1828 but lost the election itself; a lot of folks thought he was robbed. Four years later, Old Hickory won the White House in a landslide. That may help explain why Gore has chosen, as his first big public moment after eight months in the post-election wilderness, to deliver the keynote address at next month's Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Iowa--the same high-profile party event at which Gore, in 2000, played oratorical...
DIED. FLOYD SPENCE, 73, 16-term G.O.P. Congressman from South Carolina and former chairman of the House Armed Services Committee; after emergency brain surgery to remove a blood clot; in Jackson, Miss. An opponent of Big Government, he was nevertheless a proponent of an enlarged military and national missile-defense program...
...found it at an outfitter's shop in Jackson Hole, Wyo.: the trademark cowboy coat that he bought for himself, which was included in his first catalog, launched in 1987. The catalog had already become a Hollywood favorite when its kitschy prose--initially written by Manhattan marketing consultant Don Staley--caught the eye of comedian Jerry Seinfeld and Seinfeld co-creator Larry David, who owned some Peterman clothes. "We used to laugh about it all the time," David says of the prose. "When I knew we had to get Elaine [the character played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus...