Word: carolina
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David M. Beasley was governor of South Carolinafrom 1996 until 1998 and served previously on theSouth Carolina House of Representatives for 13years. David Pryor served as a Democratic senatorfrom Arkansas from 1979 until...
...leader of Operation Eagle Eye, described by the Arizona Republic as "a flying squad of G.O.P. lawyers that swept through south Phoenix to question the right of minority voters to cast their ballots." The man who swore Rehnquist in as presiding officer of the trial, South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond, ran for President in 1948 on the segregationist Dixiecrat ticket. These days Thurmond would prefer that you forget that youthful indiscretion, since he was only 45 at the time...
...less enlightened employers, sources say. "Because of a greater awareness of the law, sometimes companies are afraid to hire people with a disability. They fear that they'll be sued if that person is fired for any reason," says Patricia Veal, a human-resources placement specialist with the North Carolina division of vocational-rehabilitation services in Greensboro...
Conservatives argue that the real impact of a Davis victory would be a crackdown on boys, their rambunctious natures suddenly defined as harassment. They cite the case of Jonathan Prevette, the North Carolina six-year-old suspended last year for kissing a classmate. They may have a point. The challenge facing the Supreme Court is to come up with an answer that would save Jonathan without sacrificing LaShonda...
...Henry Hyde was brief, James Sensenbrenner was solid, Jim Rogan was compelling if strident, and Asa Hutchinson stole the show. Ed Bryant was incoherent, "shockingly bad," as one Senator said later. Most of the other presentations were forgettable or repetitive, even annoying. But on Saturday, South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham struck an empathic chord. Instead of insisting, as others had, that the case was clear-cut, he acknowledged that the Senate faced a difficult decision. Then Hyde closed with a stirring summation. Said a Republican Senator who had been skeptical about the House managers: "We were impressed with how well...