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...sword. Though a man of ample charm, Roemer managed to alienate voters with a haughty Harvard-bred hubris and a stubborn sense that only he knew what was best for the state. His sweeping reform policies, like restructuring the tax system and overhauling education, may have been Louisiana's castor oil, but voters refused to swallow it. That leaves them with a choice between Duke, who is currently a state representative, and Edwards, a high-stakes gambler with Gucci tastes, a greased-lightning wit and a reputation for skirt chasing. Bewailing the dilemma facing Louisiana voters the day after...
...difficult to tell about something as subtle and vaporous as a poet's reputation in a town not much distracted by free verse, in the heart of a republic that shuns poetry like castor oil, but lately the local wind seems to have shifted in Wright's favor. "I think there's a great deal of name recognition," observes John Storck, the youngish head librarian at the Martins Ferry public library and an organizer of the festival convened here each spring in the poet's honor, "partly because there are still a good number of his classmates around town...
...immigrants, who paid from $1,200 to $2,500 in Canadian funds for the trip, boarded the ship in the Dutch port or were picked up en route. What they did learn is that by taking advantage of fog that blanketed the coast, the ship's acting skipper, Castor Lasalle, had managed to ease the Amelie inshore. After pleading guilty to violating immigration laws, Nygren was sentenced to a year in jail and Singh to three months. Lasalle got a 30-day jail term...
...their lines are said. Both create characters of some dimension, and Bouvard is especially good as a precious 13-year old whose dream of becoming a famous artist will never come true. Neither, though, can save a Fifth of July that's about as desirable as a fifth of castor...
...sign of the best kind of advance," says Newton Zinder, E.F. Hutton's senior market analyst. In fact, the recent one- month slump, triggered in part by a brief upsurge in oil prices, makes investors feel better because they have it out of the way, like a dose of castor oil. Says Donald De Lutis, a money manager at San Francisco's Robert C. Brown investment firm: "I think 5% to 10% corrections are part of the normal activity of a great bull market...