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...more jolting when Lott, who is scheduled to resume his old job as majority leader when the Senate convenes next month, took the podium and declared, "I want to say this about my state: when Strom Thurmond ran for President, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either...
...doing drugs, getting chased by the police. But it's so hard not to. That's the problem Frank W. Abagnale Jr., 54, is facing. He did something very, very wrong--he stole $2.5 million--but he did it so coolly, it's hard not to be a little proud. "As time went by, I didn't really care to have a movie made about my life," he says while sitting on the set of the film. "I was married, and I had children. What I did was immoral and illegal. I don't really want to promote that time...
...tell an Italian that you're heading to this or that city in Italy, the response is almost always the same: Oooh! Lì si mangia bene (rough translation: the eating's good there). Italians are famously proud of their own neighborhood cuisine, but they're as eager to taste what's cooking down the road. And if you force an Italian to choose just one city where the local cuisine is better than the rest, the winner - always after careful thought - more often than not turns out to be Bologna. The traditional Bolognese menu of egg-based pasta, thick...
...guess we know who wears the pants in our family,” he joked. “But I’m so proud of her—she deserves...
...Congress seeking certification. Since 1979, as gambling has boomed, the number of recognized tribes on the U.S. mainland has spiked 23%, to a total of 337. About 200 additional groups have petitioned the bureau for recognition. Perhaps the most notorious example of tribal resurrection: the Mashantucket Pequots of Connecticut, proud owners of the world's largest casino, Foxwoods. The now billion-dollar tribe had ceased to exist until Congress re-created it in 1983. The current tribe members had never lived together on a reservation. Many of them would not even qualify for government assistance as Indians...