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Others were. The owlish Georgian had been viewed, especially by fellow Southerners who are helping to organize the region's Mega-Tuesday primary next March, as the Tory knight who could draw centrist and conservative Democrats back to the party. The two immediate beneficiaries: Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, who despite his more liberal record could become the South's favorite son; and Jesse Jackson, whose solid base of black support is likely to win him an even greater share of Southern delegates with the region's white vote splintered...
Harvard students encounter an uncomplicated housing system. More than 90 percent of students lives on campus, with sophomores, juniors and seniors staying in the mainly neo-Georgian houses for three years with all meals provided for them, whether they like them...
...Boston-area students were filmed at television station WGBH. Their Soviet counterparts, were filmed in Tiblisi, the capital of the Soviet Union's Georgian Republic, Bohr said...
...idea of transportation started in Georgian England, where the poor were relegated to a sinkhole of poverty and misery. Threatened by what it viewed as an emerging criminal class, the English oligarchy embraced the idea of forced exile as a convenient way to get rid of both prisoners and prisons. "Transportation made sublimation literal," writes Hughes. "It conveyed evil to another world...
Hardest hit was the Soviet Union, where a total of 77 people have died in weather-related incidents since early January. Soviet news reports attributed 48 of those casualties to fires, most of them caused by defective heaters. An additional 29 people were crushed under avalanches in the Georgian republic. Temperatures in Leningrad dropped to -31 degrees F, the lowest reading there since meteorological data were first kept in 1743. In Moscow, where the thermometer hit -32 degrees, the city's residents burned twice their normal daily average of gas and fuel oil and overworked heating systems failed in many...