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...maybe not, not in the least. Maybe this year there is no beast. What if all the favorites won, And the Charleston four were number ones, And all the upstarts went right home, Having lost in the Suncoast Dome...
Paralysis also threatens Charleston, South Carolina, where debates over the classroom use of a dragon-shaped hand puppet called Pumsy (Demonic!) and attempts to hire a new school nurse (An overture to abortion!) have smothered all classroom innovation. "There is a real fear among administrators and principals of being harangued for any new ideas, so they just don't do anything," says Robert New, the school-board chairman. "We have board members now saying that if a program is controversial, then maybe we should take it out." Yet Charleston's school board does not include a single Christian conservative. Mere...
With four years on the job, Reed is still tinkering with the means of his mission but remains confident that he has his ends right. When addressing outsiders these days, he makes the reasonable proposition that the religious right merely wants a place at the table. To followers in Charleston, South Carolina, not long ago, he described the dimension of that place: "Our ambition is to be larger and more effective than both political parties combined." That is no recent epiphany; to Reed, it is the gospel...
Military facilities around the country took some direct hits. The Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, which weighs Pentagon recommendations, voted to shut down about 20 facilities, including four in the San Francisco Bay area and two in Charleston, South Carolina -- a decision that, if approved by the President, will cost that city 21,300 jobs...
...will not, in fact, be easy for the commission to change Aspin's hit list, which could be bad news for Charleston. The criteria to be applied are strict, beginning with the military value of the bases to be closed, going on to potential costs and savings and ending with the impact on local communities. The military services have supplied the commission with hundreds of pages of analysis and projections. Aspin says his base-closing plan will save $3.1 billion annually beginning in the year 2000, while eliminating 57,000 civilian jobs...