Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That incident happened three or four years ago, but I was sharply reminded of it within the last couple of weeks when I read in a Radcliffe P.R. newsletter about a "Presidential Summit" that had just taken place in North Carolina. This occasion, organized by the Radcliffe College Alumni Association (RCAA) and the Harvard Clubs of the Carolinas, featured a meeting between Linda S. Wilson, President of Radcliffe "College," the President of the University of North Carolina, the Chancellor of North Carolina State and the Dean of Duke University Law School. Topics of discussion included affirmative action, the impact...
...Thirteen of the nation's 31 G.O.P. Governors have already hitched their wagon to Bush's lone star, and several more are about to. Republican state legislators across the country are rushing to write draft-Bush letters before he makes it official. Ninety percent of Republicans in the South Carolina house have signed on, and 75% of the G.O.P. in Iowa's house and senate. The numbers are similar in California and New Mexico. And those who hand-deliver the letters to Bush leave even more love sick than when they came, quoting passages from his second inaugural address...
King and Brewer joined a local prison chapter of a gang called the Confederate Knights of America, a small North Carolina-based Klan faction that recruited heavily from biker groups and prison inmates in the early 1990s. He began getting tattoos that would cover 65% of his body. His body art was a litany of racist images, including Nazi SS lightning bolts, Klan emblems and a black man lynched from a tree. One witness, psychiatrist Dr. Edward Gripon, suggested the tattoos may have been a way to make the 5-ft. 7-in., 165-lb. King look forbidding to threatening...
...month respite from their busy lives in Los Angeles six years ago to search for a new place with a gentler pace where they could retire. They bought a boat in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and cruised up the Intracoastal Waterway, rejecting Jekyll Island, Ga., and some North Carolina towns and eventually settling on Chestertown...
...Jack Polo, 61, moved down the East Coast and settled in New Bern, N.C. He and his wife Jane now tie up their sailboat to a dock in their own backyard. More than a dozen public and private golf courses dot the vicinity, and because of the mild Carolina climate, Jack can tee up even in winter. The average temperature of 62.2[degrees] is a boon to gardeners; something is in bloom the year round...