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...Orleans now has a 62% black majority, largely because of white flight. A Times-Picayune poll last week showed that 66% of voters, including most blacks, want the ordinance repealed. The law's chief sponsor, councilwoman Dorothy Mae Taylor, was reviled on posters and T shirts as THE GRINCH THAT STOLE MARDI GRAS. Said carnival spokesman Beau Bassich: "The law wasn't needed. It tampers with a very special tradition that makes New Orleans' appeal so unique. It is putting everybody into a no-fun mood...
...could kill Mardi Gras," warns Beau Bassich, a member of the Mardi Gras Coordinating Committee. Says Loyola professor Edward Renwick: "To bring up such a divisive issue so shortly after this election seems to blow the coalition asunder. We're right back to where we started. Taylor is the Grinch who stole Mardi Gras...
...year-old wrote children's favorites such as Green Eggs and Ham How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The Cat in the Hat. Seuss--whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel--died at home with his family...
...extra penny would bring in $850 million a year for the Postal Service, which is as hard hit by the recession as any business. The Postal Service has one last chance to push the price up a penny, but it could hardly afford to be the Christmas stamp Grinch. So the two seasonal stamps -- one bearing a madonna, the other a secular winter motif -- will simply read 1991 and sell for whatever price is in effect by then...
When word got out that a corporation that earned $703 million in 1989 had appropriated money that could have helped the poor, the public outcry could be heard all the way to Future World. The Orlando Sentinel called Disney the "grinch that stole affordable housing." Disney kept the money, but the controversy forced the company to promise it would not apply for the bonds...