Word: clegg
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...thorough editing. It is littered with clunky metaphors and minor errors, such as Evanzz's assertion that Martin Luther King Jr. was killed with a shotgun, not a high-powered rifle, that undermine its credibility. Those seeking a definitive biography of the Muslim leader should turn to Claude Andrew Clegg III's 1997 study, An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad, which covers most of the same ground but in a scholarly and far more convincing...
MARRIED. CHRISTOPHER DODD, 55, U.S. Senator from Connecticut; and JACKIE M. CLEGG, vice chair of the Export-Import Bank; in East Haddam, Conn. It is Dodd's second marriage...
...important case in 1986, the New York supreme court issued a ruling that made it more difficult, at least in that state, to question very young children suspected of crimes. Three years earlier, a seven-year-old Queens boy named Julian B. had allegedly pushed two-year-old Reggie Clegg from the roof of an apartment building. Under questioning, Julian admitted that he had shoved Reggie from the roof after an argument over a toy car. But the court found that the police hadn't made a necessary "extra effort" to explain to a seven-year-old what his rights...
...people perched themselves behind the same tatty 1819 writing table to fill out the Declaration of Candidacy form, which is kept on the shelf right next to the application forms for Notary Public. The registrants include not only Phil Gramm and Bob Dole but also the Rev. Billy Joe Clegg from Biloxi, Mississippi, whose slogan is "Clegg Won't Pull Your Leg" and who swears that Jesus is his campaign manager. There's also the poet and former seaman Michael Levinson from Buffalo, New York, who proposes a jobs program to build 10,000 clipper ships, and Caroline Killeen...
...breakthrough state for the Buchanan campaign," the candidate declared after paying the requisite $1,000 filing fee. Candidates have two weeks to file for the February 20 vote, but the Buchananites weren't shivering in the cold alone. Close behind was seven-time candidate Billy Joe Clegg, a Mississippi minister, followed by "The Hemp Lady," Caroline Killeen of Flagstaff, Arizona, whose platform centerpiece is reforming marijuana laws...