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...collision occurred shortly after 5 a.m. Friday as the nine students, all but two of them members of the Bulldog baseball or football teams, were returning to campus from a Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity event in New York City in a 1999 Chevrolet Tahoe...
...figure it out the hard way. Many pulled courageous, tire-screeching, midcareer 180s, like the miserable marine biologist who threw away his Ph.D. to become a deliriously happy dentist, or the hard-charging vice president at First Boston who chucked it all to raise catfish in the Mississippi Delta...
...Lott grew up was settled by immigrants from France, Spain, Italy, Lebanon and Yugoslavia. But in Lott's youth, as now, blacks numbered only about 18% of the area's population, and whites didn't feel as threatened as they did in the black-majority counties of the Mississippi Delta. While most neighborhoods were segregated, the largest black precinct was smack in the middle of town, and the races mixed easily on the streets and in factories, where jobs were usually available to all. Lott recalls that "race just wasn't that big an issue for me growing...
...moment or epiphany" but rather many experiences, especially as he has got to know better the poorest parts of his home state. "We've lived in this cocoon in Pascagoula," he said. "Everybody had a job. The schools were good. But it's different in the Delta." There, he says, "I've seen that a lot of people don't have the opportunity we had." Lott adds that he has long assumed that his efforts to bring federal dollars and private investment to Mississippi would benefit blacks more than anyone else, and that that should be sufficient to prove...
...last week, executives at Continental Airlines and Northwest Airlines must have patted themselves on the back. In an unusual display of ganging up on one of their own, the two carriers had for months aggressively and publicly lobbied against the payout. But now the carriers, along with Delta Airlines, are pushing to form an unprecedented three-way alliance that is causing even more consternation among their competitors. The three airlines have asked the Department of Transportation (DOT) to rapidly approve the alliance, which would allow the carriers to "code-share" on domestic flights, make interchangeable their frequent-flyer programs...