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...irrepressibly jaunty side from shining through. His "Old Fashioned Sing-along," for example, is considered a highlight of the annual 4th Circuit Judicial Conference. This year, however, some lawyers took exception to the inclusion of Dixie in his songbook. Many consider the Confederate marching song, which was played at Jefferson Davis' inauguration, to be nostalgic for slavery. Rehnquist is not commenting publicly, but we do have some insight into what else he's doing in his downtime. Earlier this month, he entered, and won, a contest in the Washington Post's Dr. Gridlock column by figuring out that a license...
...wonderfully nuanced relationship between the Hill clan and Laotian next-door neighbors the Souphanousinphones on Fox's King of the Hill.) And if these casting decisions are injurious to minorities, they're insulting to whites, who the networks essentially imply are retrograde racists, years after warming to Jefferson, Huxtable and Urkel. And what if--God help us--they're right...
Unlike Sofen, I find nothing alarming about the fact that the museum contained a "special room" for Jefferson Davis or "still-polished Confederate weapons." Sofen complains that these artifacts made the New South he'd read so much about in magazines "seem worlds away...
Unlike Sofen, I find nothing alarming about the fact that the museum contained a "special room" for Jefferson Davis or "still-polished Confederate weapons." Sofen complains that these artifacts made the New South he'd read so much about in magazines "seem worlds away...
...wife, and kept when her marriage ended and she returned to the U.S. The daughter of a factory worker, she had taken up violin in fourth grade at her public school. "It should be an inalienable right for every child to have music education," she insists. To remedy what Jefferson overlooked, she moved to East 118th Street and brought the sound of strings to three public schools...