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...Mississippi native and graduate of Auburn's architecture school, Mockbee has long been troubled by the poverty found in the South. He got his first hands-on experience with low-cost housing in the early 1980s, when he worked in Canton, Miss., with a nun who was finding homes for that area's poor...
...teaching at Auburn, he used what he had learned in Canton to develop the Rural Studio. Mockbee sees the studio, which is financed by the university and such philanthropic groups as the Alabama Power Foundation, as a way to train a new generation of students in his belief that "architecture is a social art. It has to function in an ethical, moral way to help people...
...preseason match between the San Francisco 49ers and the New England Patriots at the Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, was my first football game in 21 years. If ABC hired Miller in part to bring in a new audience to aid Monday Night Football's slumping ratings, I fit the bill. I'd grown up to be a suspicious female who prefers the plaintive nihilism of Hank Williams Sr. to the "rowdy" antics of his Monday Night Football theme-singing...
...Dennis Miller Live is the night he postponed the monologue a few seconds to say he'd been driving around blissfully listening to the Beach Boys and wanted to thank songwriter Brian Wilson. Clearly, he has the same soft spot for the football players he admires. During the Canton game, he talked about a Hall of Fame dinner he'd just attended, swooning, "There's such a nobility about those guys. It really tears at your heartstrings when you see how many of them have limps. The price they paid for greatness is touching...
...Fouts was congenial, not to mention interactive. With Fouts, Miller was downright deferential, prefacing a query about a thing called a "two-gap" defense with the apology, "You know, Danny, I hate to do the Socratic method with you and ask you all these questions." After Miller deemed Canton the "Tigris and Euphrates of football history," Michaels elaborated, "This could be Three Rivers Stadium--the Tigris, the Euphrates and the Cuyahoga," sailing Miller's Mesopotamia one-liner to the New World. When Miller cooed he was having "so much fun!" Michaels ribbed him, "This is like you won a prize...