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After 110 years Jefferson Davis is once again a U.S. citizen, thanks to a bill signed into law by a fellow Southerner, Jimmy Carter. Shorn of citizenship by a punitive Reconstruction Era Congress, Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, died in 1889. In 1975, General Robert E. Lee's citizenship was restored, leaving Davis the sole Confederate leader still ostracized. Carter agreed that enough was enough. Said he: "Our nation needs to clear away the guilts, enmities and recriminations of the past...
Ford said he decided to platoon because "Walter (Diaz) and Lee (Nelson) are two very similar players," who like to work the ball up from midfield. Ford says he is looking for "more aggressive" players to complement Diaz and Nelson up front and put the ball...
...opening inside tandem of Lee Nelson and Mike Mogollon worked well with midfielders Michael Smith and Andy Kronfeld, dominating the center line area and working out to the wings. But Harvard was unable to consistently break through inside as Princeton, relying on its speedy forwards, brought all 11 men back to play defense...
Guys and Dolls gently spoofs the pious. Bible-reading has more serious overtones in Inherit the Wind, by Lawrence and Lee. The play is based on the famous John Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, in which a young schoolteacher was tried for teaching his science classes Darwin's theory of evolution--a practice forbidden by statute in his Bible-Belt state. The political orator William Jennings Bryan led the prosecution, while Clarence Darrow defended the teacher. Though the characters in Inherit the Wind are but thinly disguised, the playwrights have turned a sensationalistic trial into a lyrical clash between tradition...
Amen. With that, Bill Lee put himself, baseball and life into sincerest form. And hopefully, for the guy who aims the beer bottle for Mickey Rivers' head, put things into perspective...