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Molly Ivins once said, with respect to the elder George Bush, that no one is a true Texan who uses "summer" as a verb. If summer drives you away from where you live, your roots are indeed suspect. If it doesn't, though, and you live in Texas or any other state south of Maine, the only verb you use for three months of the year is buried in the contraction "innit," as in "Whee-ooo, innit...
...racial progress but see him as a traitor. To them Woods appeared to be running away from being an African American--a condition, they were quick to point out, that he himself had emphasized when he paid tribute to black golf pioneers Teddy Rhoades, Charlie Sifford and Lee Elder in his graceful victory speech. In a mirror image of Zoeller's constricted views, some blacks saw Woods' assertion of a multiracial identity as a sellout that could touch off an epidemic of "passing." Arthur Fletcher, a black member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, testified at a 1993 congressional...
...mother, could be transmitted patrilineally as well--thereby admitting the children of Gentile mother-Jewish father intermarriages. And Reform has gone further: 88% of its temples allow non-Jews as members, and 27% even accept them as officers. For a correlative, imagine Presbyterians naming an unconverted Jew an elder...
...hoard for myself?" We go to church for confirmation of our life-style, not worship. Maybe with prodding like yours we will change. Maybe we can again find the pathway to heaven. Maybe we can join Christ on his way, with "God first" and sacrifice for others. JOHN MEACHAM, ELDER First Presbyterian Church Garner, North Carolina...
...elder Quincy soy drinker is Montira Horayangura '97, who calls herself "a real aficionado" and says she consumes at least one container every two days...