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...seems only to heighten public cynicism. Observes Xavier University sociologist Silas Lee: "We've taken a Mardi Gras approach for too long, covering up all the problems with costumes. But we were dying on the inside." That can change, others say, if New Orleans draws on its inner grit and bonhomie. "It has things going for it that others don't," says Renwick. "Who would want to eat in Atlanta compared to New Orleans anyway?" In times like these, a little civic chauvinism should be forgiven...
...Over the past month, you've had a bad time ... You now have got to be the leader of the free world again. Just from a human point of view, how do you find the grit to do that...
Harding, by contrast, would make an unlikely role model -- though her grit and spirit have served her well in surviving a turbulent childhood and triumphing in a grueling sport. Tough, self-sufficient and bruised well beyond her years, Harding has never known stability either on the rink or at home. She moved between eight different houses in six communities in her first 18 years, during which her father Al, who has variously driven a truck, managed apartments and worked at a bait-and-tackle store, was her best friend. He gave her her first gun, a .22, when...
...ordinary man. Early hits that hinted at the darker dimensions of suburbia, like Jack and Diane and Pink Houses, sold millions and made Mellencamp an MTV star. On later albums, like Scarecrow (1985) and The Lonesome Jubilee (1987), he used electric violin and accordion to evoke the bucolic grit of rural America. At the same time, his longstanding commitment to Farm Aid, which he co-founded with Willie Nelson in 1985, gave his prairie- roots message an activist urgency...
...ordinary man. Early hits that hinted at the darker dimensions of suburbia, like Jack and Diane and Pink Houses, sold millions and made Mellencamp an MTV star. On later albums, like Scarecrow (1985) and The Lonesome Jubilee (1987), he used electric violin and accordion to evoke the bucolic grit of rural America. At the same time, his longstanding commitment to Farm Aid, which he co-founded with Willie Nelson in 1985, gave his prairie- roots message an activist urgency...