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...righteous to admit, our nation's father, George Washington, was a slave owner, as were Thomas Jefferson and numerous other prestigious Americans. Their greatness does not legitimize the fact that they owned slaves, but that ownership does not make them degenerate rapists. I also though that it was a bit presumptuous of Mr. Brown to call two sitting United States Senators "jabbering Neanderthals." Lord knows that many people disagree with Sen. Jesse Helms' and Sen. Strom Thurmond's views, but I believe that the office they hold deserves some respect, even from the Harvard-educated...
...realize the fact that I am only a six-generation Texan does not nearly qualify me to discuss the "perversity" of the South's "inbred cultural" beliefs with Mr. Brown, who knows "firsthand" of the region having "traveled through it a bit." Yet I do feel that Mr. Brown's accusations are not only offensive generalizations, but they are wrong. The Confederate flag is a flag of heritage. It represents to Southerners not only the undeniable shame of slavery we inherited from our forefathers, but also the pride in family, honor and state we recieved from their legacy. It serves...
TREES DON'T GROW TO THE SKY" IS the way generations of stock-market traders have rephrased the proverb, What goes up must come down. But that ancient bit of sententiousness is out of favor on Wall Street today. To be sure, no one quite dares to predict that after more than eight years of almost vertical ascent since the Crash of '87, share prices can keep going up forever. There are some signs of nervousness that one of these days a financial version of the law of gravity will reassert itself, as evidenced by last week's 94-point...
Which brings me to the next bit of discouraging news: this is the first year the Pillsbury Bake-Off prize shot up to $1 million--and a man won it. Women have only themselves to blame for this. Sleep deprived, they accepted help in the kitchen. But male cooking is not the everyday feeding of a household; it's a cameo, virtuoso performance in which every dish is used to produce an elaborate meal at midnight. Congratulations and a pass on cleaning up are expected--after all, he cooked! Men can prepare $20-per-lb. salmon in a $300 fish...
DIED. WES FARRELL, 56, songwriter; of cancer; in Coconut Grove, Florida. Farrell's hits included Hang on Sloopy and Come a Little Bit Closer...