Word: carolina
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Further, family values, a flashy issue of opportunity, has about it a certain eloquent irrelevance -- something like the old waving of the bloody shirt, or the snake-oil vending that has always gone on in American politics. North Carolina Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, a baroque declaimer of the Southern school of rural demagogy in the '30s and '40s, was a genius of flavorsome insinuation. "Do y'all know what ((my opponent's)) favorite dish is?" he would ask slowly of his "God-fearin', 'tater-raisin', baby-havin' " constituents. Then in a burst of disgusted indignation: "Caviar!" The word came...
Consider the case of Karen Grant of Goldsboro, North Carolina. She took her three sons, ages 13, 10 and 6, to the local library, and while she was helping the older boys find books, the six-year-old began browsing through a children's picture book called Daddy's Roommate, a book by Michael Willhoite written in the voice of a young boy whose parents divorce and whose father subsequently sets up housekeeping with his gay lover. The incident has created a storm and divided Goldsboro. The Grants call the book "antifamily" and claim among other things that it trivializes...
...love isn't only what you felt for the person you slept with until the night before last. It can be the memory of an elder sibling whose departure from home left the first big hole in a child's heart (Only a Dream), or the appeal of North Carolina's rural landscape seen as "a blur from the driver's side" (I Am a Town). Even her least typical hit -- Down at the Twist and Shout, the Cajun-ragin' Grammy winner from her 1990 album, Shooting Straight in the Dark -- is a tribute to a place that no longer...
Margaret Hare, a lifelong South Carolina resident whose mother is a delegate for that state, said the tide is slowly turning to prochoice among Republicans across the country. And she believes that Weld's speech will only accelerated the process...
...reportedly witnessed a fiery car crash at Le Mans and neglected to call the news desk, he knows his way around a notebook. While an undergraduate at Tufts, he worked at the Boston Globe and the Vineyard Gazette. After graduating, he worked at the Raleigh Times in North Carolina and the Associated Press in London before joining the New York Times as a reporter in the Washington bureau...