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...have built careers battling Brooklynese, and in Boston there are Kennedy clones who have lately learned to talk like television anchors (for whom Cuba never rhymes with tuber). Why shouldn't they do it in Chattanooga too? This is the market niche an intrepid speech pathologist named Beverly Inman-Ebel spotted several years back when she set herself up in practice teaching "speech perfection," or how not to talk like a Southerner...
...idea naturally has not gone down like mint juleps, especially since Inman-Ebel grew up in the North. In the current hate mail, a genteel adversary writes, "Dear Madam: I note that you are from Ohio. Have you never noticed the Midwestern twang? Like cats meowing...
...truth, Inman-Ebel speaks perfect television-anchor talk, one of those serviceable voices from nowhere. She is a slim, freckled redhead with blue eyes and tight little muscles at the corners of a big smile. She dresses for success, has two kids at home, and holds a yellow belt with green tips in Taekwondo. The license plate on her car says I CAN, and she is inclined to say things like "Y'all can too." (She notes that her parents originally came from east Tennessee, and the occasional Southernism makes clients more comfortable...
...people registered an 8.3 on the Richter scale. Yesterday's, in comparison, probably brought no damage because it started in an unpopulated area. Even if it had centered in a major city it would only have caused minor damage to a few chimneys, walls, and tombstones, said John Ebel, a seismologist at an observatory in Weston, Mass...
Israel's most secure border-the one facing Lebanon-has unexpectedly become its most volatile. While the rest of civil-war-torn Lebanon was quiet last week, intermittent mortar fire continued in the south between the Moslem town of Bint Jebail and the Christian settlement of Ain Ebel. Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat, meanwhile, insisted that his forces were free to regroup in that area (see following story). Israel so opposes this, as well as the idea of having Syrian soldiers on a second Israeli border-even as Arab peace keepers-that the Jerusalem government convened its "war cabinet," deployed...