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Lott's apparent nostalgia for the days of Jim Crow segregation was denounced as "fundamentally racist" by former Vice President Al Gore. In a terse written statement, Lott apologized to "anybody who was offended" by his "poor choice of words." But the Washington Post reported that Lott had used almost identical words in praise of Thurmond's segregationist campaign during comments in Mississippi in 1980. A slip of the lip suddenly looked like a pattern and opened a public exhumation of Lott's long record of votes and statements hostile to the civil rights movement...
...attack on that mission. The issue is not whether Lott is a racist or a segregationist. We cannot know what is in his heart. The issue is Lott's astonishing record of racial obtuseness. This is a man who has twice uttered public statements regretting the end of Jim Crow. He voted against a federal Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. "Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy," he wrote in a 1981 amicus brief defending Bob Jones University's ban on interracial dating. He has hobnobbed with thinly veiled white-supremacist groups. It took several attempts last week before...
...depending on the brew. More exotic, though, are the ones containing some not-so-secret ingredients: whole pickled cobras, monkey parts or any other animal that will fit in a jar. Each variety is said to have specific medicinal powers. Gecko is purported to be a natural antibiotic. Black crow supposedly cures backaches. Aphrodisiac versions come with goat testicles, starfish and sea horse. Then there's the secret herbal recipe with a name that conveys a sense of its rare erotic promise: Nhat Da Ngu Giao, or One Night, Five Times...
...EARLY IN THE PROCESS FOR THE "REISSUE" RATE ON TITLE INSURANCE. In a refi, odds are very low that someone will emerge with a claim on your property. the insurance premium should reflect that lower risk, saving you $200 or more - and giving you something extra to crow about on saturday night...
...weak economy, a lot of business school graduates are disappointed with current job opportunities, but people have to realize that Harvard fares far better than other business schools,” said Craig M. Robinson, who graduated from the Business School last year and now works at Trammell Crow, a management firm based in Dallas...