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...from the last time Dole began a presidential bid, in 1987, with a stark, conventional announcement from his hometown of Russell, Kansas. With 54 weeks to go before the New Hampshire primary, the Republican contest for President is lifting off quickly--and shedding its excess baggage almost as fast. Last week it was Jack Kemp's turn. The man who helped define Reaganism, the humane champion of free enterprise, decided not to run. ``Many in the party,'' he told recently, ``have moved further to the right than I feel comfortable with. What I believe in--that we should include everyone...
What's cool about Marion, Indian (his hometown): We have the best thrifts stores of any town. I don't think Marion prides itself on that, but we have three really great thrift stores. I lover garage sale, and there are great garage sales in the summer...
Combining plaintive alterna-rock lyrics with a Graceland-period Paul Simon sound, the DAVE MATTHEWS BAND has become the rage of college radio. Under the Table and Dreaming, its major-label debut, has also made the quintet an MTV favorite and poised its genteel hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia, to become the next Seattle. Lead singer-songwriter Dave Matthews, a hobby painter and self-proclaimed mamma's boy, harbors no Eddie Vedder-ish loathing of fame, though. "I'm grateful as hell. I wouldn't mind people knowing our songs in Tahiti," says Matthews, "or even Outer Mongolia...
...acre parcel that encompasses the birth home, the Ebenezer Baptist Church, King's tomb and the family-run King Center for Nonviolent Social Change. But in a broader sense, it was symbolic of the troubles that have beset the legacy of the slain civil rights leader in his hometown even as the U.S. prepares to celebrate his birthday next week...
Nearly one-third of all American children are now in families headed by a single parent, the Census Bureau reported today. Perhaps surprisingly, the highest concentration of single-parent families (37.3 percent) is found in quiet Albany, Ga., just 40 miles from former President Jimmy Carter's hometown of Plains. Overall, the report says, 30 percent of American families and 63 percent of the country's black families are headed by single parents. New York City came in second in the survey, with 35.9 percent of children in single-parent homes...