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...seems that big players in the Colonies were attracted to Puritan country. John Winthrop, Class of 1732, liked to be called "The Big Dawn of Religious Perfection" and the famous Wampanoag leader Squanto adopted the name Jimmy Ray ("T-Bone") Squanto, Jr. However, for some unknown reason (meteorite), country music seems to have died out completely in Massachusetts. We can only wonder what a difference it would have made in Northeastern and American history had it survived. Some possibilities I have come up with are: the Boston Massacre would be The Big Boston Whup-Ass; the Declaration of Independence would...
Global dominos is what the 1990s are all about. We live in an unusual period of low inflation, achieved in a big way by companies cutting costs to the bone to keep prices down. Executives have scanned the world in search of low-cost production and added sales, and the result is an intricately connected business world. You can bet that every big American company is doing a chunk of business in the hot Asia market...
...J.F.K. JR. has a visible physical malady, and you don't know why. So what do you do? Make something up. When Kennedy appeared in public with a soft cast early last month, each tabloid came up with a different explanation. The Star reported that he had fractured a bone while paddling his kayak on the Hudson River. The National Enquirer made the highly dubious claim that John-John broke his bone by pounding on his desk in an argument with a staff member at George. The Globe made a bold ratings grab by saying it was most likely...
...find everything to be as bone-chilling as you would hope, but you will probably leave with at least one shock to tell your friends about...
...Swan that her hip hurt. With her sons' help, Swan lifted her mother out of the bed, pulled up her nightgown and collapsed in sobs. "She had this bedsore on her hip that was so deep," her daughter recalls, "that I could see the hip socket and leg bone moving inside the hole." Her bottom was bruised and caked with dried feces, which Swan peeled off with her fingers amid her tears. "I never had looked under the covers," she says. "I didn't think I had to." Johnson, now 98 and living in a Utah nursing home, doesn...