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This morning our nation awoke with a new president. After months of stimulating intellectual discourse, the people of America (or the electoral college as it may be) put an end to the statistical dead heats and elected either a stiff-necked Tennesseean or a record-dodging Texan to be the next leader of the free world. However, now is not the time to gloat about how the smarter man won out in the end. Nor is it the time to plan your emigration to Canada in the case that he didn't--at least, not quite yet. As counter-intuitive...
Kovach's job in Atlanta was merely one stop in a distinguished career. He began reporting in 1959 at the Johnson City Press Chronicle in Tennessee and spent much of the 1960s covering the civil rights movement, Appalachian poverty and southern politics for the Nashville Tennesseean...
After losing to Bart Gordon by a scant 2,174 votes in 1994, Gill takes another swing this fall. The two share some key stands--both are pro-life and support capital-gains tax cuts--but Gill argues he would be a more effective reformer. The only Tennesseean ever selected as a White House fellow, Gill served President Bush as director of intergovernmental affairs, helping to develop international-trade policy, which he teaches at Belmont University in Nashville...
...Vietnam, Gore became a reporter, and when hereturned to the United States, he covered localpolitics for the Nashville Tennesseean...
Welby Lee is a tireless Tennesseean who has spent 20 years and traveled 100,000 miles in search of the hit-and-run driver who killed his father on a country road on New Year's Eve, 1944. With only a broken bumper guard as solid evidence, Lumber Merchant Lee, now 52, traced scores of cars and suspects before he caught up last year with Grover Jones, 56, an Indianapolis handyman. On the basis of Lee's mound of circumstantial evidence, Jones was indicted for second-degree murder, only to have the case wind up in a mistrial...