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...when he was elected Governor in 1987 -- a 39-year-old Harvard grad who vowed to fight racism and improve his state's decrepit public schools. But with his reform package thwarted by a stubborn legislature and the state economy sliding, Mississippi voters booted Mabus out in favor of Kirk Fordice, a Vicksburg building contractor who had never before sought political office. Fordice, 57, became Mississippi's first Republican Governor since Reconstruction largely by attacking Mabus for failing to deliver on his promises. But the Republican also played the oldest card in Southern politics, the racial resentments of whites...
...sick and tired of being second," linebacker Kirk Carruthers said. "Miami always takes it away from us. We're not going to let it happen this year...
Republican Kirk Fordice held a slim, steady lead over Gov. Ray Mabus in Mississippi, in a surprisingly strong bid to become the state's first GOP governor in more than a century...
...Hole. With Kirk Douglas...
...There are Black students who feel we suffer from a lack of unity," said Kirk A. Parks '92, director of the African American Cultural Center. "But there is no crisis at hand. It's just a matter of improvement...