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Other names have become almost as symbolic as Howard Beach: for example, the Citadel, the Charleston, S.C., military academy where a black cadet was subjected to racist hazing; or Jefferson Parish, the New Orleans suburb where the sheriff (a Chinese American) made a suggestion (later retracted after a public outcry) that blacks walking in white neighborhoods might be stopped for questioning...
...beat a quiet retreat: he proposed a slash of $913 million, to about $3 billion, in funds for fighting drug abuse. Grants to state and local governments for drug law enforcement would be eliminated, and funding for drug education and treatment would be trimmed. Said Mayor Joseph Riley of Charleston, S.C., who heads the U.S. Conference of Mayors: "To state and local government efforts to fight drugs, this budget just says...
...Clark, 44, came of age professionally during the decline of blank-box modernism. It is a nice irony that the small hotel he and his partner, Charles Menefee, 32, designed for a river-bluff site outside Charleston, S.C., is such an unapologetically modernist work. The Middleton Inn, elegant and Miesian in the best senses, is complicated but not overwrought, decorous but not formulaic...
...investigating possible civil rights violations in a recent racial hazing at The Citadel, a prominent military academy in Charleston...
Fussell's strength is her energy. On her cross-country trek the author covers scores of local cuisines and the locals who make them: "In Greensboro they were talking rice and gravy but I didn't know it because in the Carolinas nobody calls rice 'rice.' Down in Charleston they call it 'perlew' and up in Greensboro they call it 'pie-low' and cook books spell it 'pilau,' to mean 'rice pilaf.' " In Wisconsin, she finds that orange whitefish roe is dyed black and processed into caviar primarily for the Japanese market. She gives us a glimpse of Indian salmon...