Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said she smoked crack cocaine a little more than an hour before she gave birth to a stillborn child, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in a lower court. Condon relishes the thought that the Whitner case will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Win or lose, "South Carolina is uniquely poised to have an impact on the nation...
...this week. So pick the Chiefs to cover that fat 9.5 point spread against the Chargers -- KC's a young team and the coaches will be telling players that a big win is sure to impress the bowl scouts. Likewise, the Pack minus 6.5 on the road against Carolina. And reverse the trend to take the Bills getting five at home against a Jaguars team that struggles away from the St. John's River...
...soon after she joined Wilmington's Design Review Board, Chamberlain discovered that the town's "good-ole-buddy network" of businessmen and politicians isn't always grateful for fresh perspectives. Teaming up with a preservationist group led by two other outsiders--John Baskin, 56, a ruminative writer from South Carolina, and former Bostonian Hawley, whose Orange Frazer Press specializes in books about Ohio--Chamberlain became involved in a crusade to create a downtown shopping-and-entertainment zone. Mayor Eveland and the city council liked the idea, but never came up with a way to finance it. The activists also tried...
...have Gingrich's expansive intellectual range--or combativeness--suits many of Paxon's compatriots just fine. Republicans are winning most of the major political arguments of the day, they say; their problem is style, not substance. "Being conservative and mean are not synonymous," says Representative Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, referring to Gingrich. "Conservatism is popular. We've got a good message; we just need a good messenger...
...novel's first character is the narrator, writer Hartley Mims, jr., who chooses to spell junior "with a lowercase letter because it's quirky and who "planned on becoming a New Yorker when [he] was eight." His story begins when he moves to the Big Apple from Falls, North Carolina in 1980 to pursue a career as a bona fide starving artist. A true writer, Hartley experiences life only to later describe it to friends. He eroticizes New York and almost everything in it, and his humor is his best survival tactic. Hartley is a self-described happy person--"drunk...