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Ashcroft grew up in rural Springfield, Mo., a green and rolling part of the state that has voted Republican since the Civil War. Back when Missouri sent 10 Democrats to Congress, Springfield was the lone Republican holdout. It was free-labor, antiunion territory, with antislave, Bible-belt, mountain people. Young John was the middle son of a renowned Pentecostal educator and minister. His was a strict and loving household, childhood friends say, where smoking, drinking and dancing were forbidden, and Sundays were for prayer and study, not work or play. When John was a teenager, he and his brother Wesley...
...which they were riding took a nasty swerve. "The tire just started separating, and my friend lost control," Bailey recalls. Although the pavement was dry, the Explorer skidded and rolled. Bailey's friends walked away. But the 43-year-old mother of two was left suspended by her seat belt, paralyzed from the neck down...
...Bailey case is important because of the circumstances--a dry road, nobody in the car had been drinking, Bailey was wearing her seat belt, and the vehicle's Firestone tires were not involved in the original recall. Bailey, whose annual medical costs will reach $600,000, is seeking millions in damages from Ford, Firestone and the car dealer for gross negligence and malice. Ford has already settled 25 tire-related injury and death claims. But a flurry of last-minute negotiations last week failed to produce a settlement in the Bailey case. A Ford spokesman says they will...
...Anyone can sign up online, as long as he can come up with creative answers like "34th grade." I vowed to beat my 1480 without any preparation whatsoever, unless you consider that the SATs are designed to measure your preparedness for college and I had four years under my belt. But I wouldn't do any extra studying to beat my original score, which I should mention...
...Crimson suffered its first shutout of the season at the hands of Colorado netminder Jeff Sanger. With his seventh career donut under his belt, Sanger not only led the Tigers to a clean sweep of the Crimson, but shattered the school's shutout record...