Word: southernness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...that his dyslexia demands--is Boies' uncanny ability to recall a key fact, legal citation or piece of contradictory testimony at moments of the most intense pressure. Monday, Dec. 11, Boies to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: "The language you're referring to is at page 268 of the Southern Reporter." The Southern Reporter? When did Boies memorize the Southern freaking Reporter? His wife says his ability to distinguish that which matters from that which doesn't makes it appear that he has a prodigious memory when "all he's really doing is just remembering the important things." Boies puts...
...followers of the genome saga know, Venter's restless intellect and his tendency to buck authority were evident from the start. After barely graduating from high school in the 1960s, for example, he headed not for college but for the surfing beaches of Southern California. That made him a prime target for the draft, and the Navy sent him to Vietnam as a medical corpsman--an experience that taught him indelible lessons about the fragility of human life and the colossal ineptitude of big bureaucracies. Says Venter: "If you suffered fools, you died. I dealt with thousands of people dying...
...crippling snow may have kept some Midwesterners away from the stores last week, but no one can blame the weather for the sparse crowds at Southern California malls. In sunny West Los Angeles, the Westside Pavilion was a virtual ghost town, and the few people wandering through other malls weren't exactly spreading the wealth. "I used to go into debt every year and spend six months digging out," says Susan Ray, an executive assistant. "I don't want to do that anymore...
...minutes for a "hike in the woods." Clinton bounded off through the sequoias, fascinated by the 300-ft. skyscrapers that spring from a seed smaller than a rice grain. He returned, behind schedule, to make his designation speech before zipping off by helicopter to a fund raiser in southern California...
...pearl/ I can do anything/ In the worl'.") to sleek 46th-floor dining rooms of the TIME-LIFE Building, where he met with editors and writers preparing cover stories about him. Jackson has many speaking voices - from hard street (almost incomprehensible to the white ear) to a high, southern-preacherly eloquence (school of Martin Luther King Jr.) to the most sophisticated corporate mellowspeak, as smooth and fancy as Harvard. He speaks these various styles of English with virtuosity - a repertoire that ranges from unlettered field hand to articulate overlord...