Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Increasingly restless, Collins began to wonder whether he should devote his days to arcane research that had little immediate impact on other people. So while completing his doctoral dissertation in physical chemistry, Collins enrolled in medical school at the University of North Carolina. A three-week course hooked him on medical genetics, a specialty that let him be both humanitarian and researcher...
...their somewhat wonky way of celebrating New Year's, President Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton and their daughter Chelsea joined about a thousand other people on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, for the "Renaissance Weekend," an annual gathering the Clintons have attended for a decade, at which successful liberal yuppies talk about policy and personal growth and make contacts. To be included in the Renaissance Weekend, one must promise not to discuss publicly what happens there, but despite this vow of omerta, some information could be gleaned...
...Massachusetts defeats North Carolina in college basketball. Sure, there's regional bias on this one. But who cares. The victory was big inside and outside Massachusetts. UNC was hailed as possibly the best college team ever. And the Tar Heels jumped out to an 11-0 lead. But UMass, playing under fiery coach John Calipari, didn't back down. It took UNC into overtime and then took over. The nation was shocked, and at last, UMass had the national respect it deserved...
...Maryland, President Clinton flew to Little Rock for a vacation that differed markedly from his celeb-studded retreat on Martha's Vineyard last summer. The President's average-guy holiday included bowling and sitting in on a University of Arkansas basketball game. Clinton then headed for Hilton Head, South Carolina, to spend New Year's at the annual Renaissance Weekend, a social and policy retreat for caring, sensitive power brokers...
...latest in a line of liberal Clinton nominees who have either been dumped outright or forced to sit on their hands while right-wing lawmakers fulminate and filibuster against their views. Roberta Achtenberg, Clinton's assistant secretary for fair housing, was kept from her job for months while North Carolina's Jesse Helms denounced her as a "showpiece of the homosexual movement." Meanwhile, Walter Dellinger, now an assistant Attorney General, was in limbo for six months because Helms and Lauch Faircloth, also of North Carolina, took offense at Dellinger's record of reasoned -- though pointedly liberal -- arguments before...