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Trent Lott drew criticism last month for a statement he made in honor of Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday. Lott essentially said that the country would be a better place if Thurmond had been elected president in 1948, the year he ran as a Dixiecrat on a pro-segregation platform. I, like many others, have trouble with Lott’s comments, but for different reasons. Lott did not go far enough...
...women had been college pals. One was maid of honor at the other's wedding. They stayed close for 25 years. Then, seven years ago, they had a fight--one accused the other of improperly appropriating a business idea to use in her own company--and they stopped speaking. Recently, one of them, Gail Blanke, 56, concluded that the long friendship ultimately meant more to her than the argument. Blanke telephoned her friend and told her how important she was. The friendship instantly resumed. Even though the two live in different states, today they keep in touch on a regular...
...memorial service for Lavietes will be scheduled at the Boys and Girls Club in Shelton, and his wife said she plans also to hold a ceremony in his honor in Memorial Church...
DIED. JOE FOSS, 87, Medal of Honor--winning World War II pilot, Governor of South Dakota, commissioner of the American Football League and head of the National Rifle Association; at a hospital near his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. Dubbed "America's No. 1 Ace" on the cover of LIFE magazine for shooting down 26 fighters and bombers in the battle for guadalcanal, he later drew controversy as a gun supporter. in 1990 he told TIME, "All guns are good guns...
...describes the Choir’s trip to Israel in 1999, when the group swam in the Red Sea and planted a tree in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “It’s so different—when we went and now. It was real peaceful, now every few weeks there’s a bus bombing. No one might ever get to go there again...