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...remember Jimmy Swaggart?) tend to predominate in the Protestant north. Former Governor Earl K. Long managed to touch most of those bases: he loved nothing better than boar hunting and horse racing, and he ended his life in a steamy affair with a New Orleans stripper named Blaze Starr. Ex-Governor Edwin Edwards, who revels in his image as a womanizer and gambler, once boasted that the only thing that could lose him an election was being caught in bed "with a dead girl or a live boy." One Governor who definitely did not embody the state's hog-stomping...
...controversial proposal by Oberlin College President S. Frederick Starr to offer a three-year bachelor's degree is turning heads in the academic world, but is unlikely to catch on at Harvard anytime soon, students and administrators interviewed here said yesterday...
...This field was definately a big equalizer. The grass is really slow and totally changed the game," B.U. Coach Sally Starr said. "Living in the city makes it hard to find grass to practice on, and I'd say this is no indication of what this team...
...just too bad they didn't give the game to the athletes and let their talents decide the game," said Starr...
Another problem is that Soviets lack what Oberlin President Starr terms "horizontal links among citizens," the clubs, professional societies and voluntary associations that in other countries foster the habits of political give-and-take. At the end of the 19th century, Danish historian Georg Brandes called czarist Russia "a bureaucratic state where official power has destroyed all spontaneous and natural growth in the relations of public life." His description would have fit the Communist state even better. Partly in consequence, aspiring leaders have had nowhere to learn the arts of compromise and coalition building indispensable to democratic politics...