Word: vinsons
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However, when the board's Reading Development Committee met in May, its chair, retired English teacher Joan Vinson of Dallas, argued against excluding those books. "These books are included in some of the best literature out there," Vinson said. "Also, if we're trying to align the SAT more with school curricula, that's something we can't do if we exclude these books." Other committee members heartily agreed that passages from William Faulkner and James Joyce--authors typically assigned only in the best schools--should also be considered for inclusion. Students who have already read these authors will have...
Cash laid the groundwork for succeeding troubadours who tell stories with their songs, in which the message is more important than album sales. Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Petty and Steve Earle are just a few who followed the model of the Man in Black. MIKE VINSON McMinnville, Tenn...
...resume isn't going to provide much fodder for conservatives--or liberals, for that matter--looking to deep-six Bush's close ally. He was a pro-business jurist in Texas for two years but no ideologue on social issues. He spent 13 years at Enron's law firm, Vinson & Elkins, doing deals in the go-go Houston of the 1980s but before the controversial Enron transactions took place. He was generally known as a stick-to-the-law kind of attorney in Bush's office. "Very seldom, if ever, did I hear his personal views on issues," said Terral...
Feller graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1938 and later attended the Law School, where he served as editor of the law review. After completing his education, he clerked for then-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Fred M. Vinson...
...dial-up, the meeting proved relatively uneventful. Lay seemed composed but genuinely concerned and said he would have attorneys look into the questionable deals. Though Watkins counseled against it, Lay suggested--and eventually selected--Enron's law firm, Vinson & Elkins, to conduct the inquiry. Nevertheless, Watkins left feeling buoyed. "I felt, 'Oh, good, now he knows,'" she says. "There was a feeling that I had done the hardest thing in my life, but I had carried the torch and dropped it off." For the first time that week, she slept through the night. In late September, even after netting...