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...know that the South has a better handle on race relations. [But] Blacks and whites in the South have had to confront each other more," said Edward T. "Ned" Freeman '00, who has lived in North Carolina, Alabama and most recently Louisiana...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The razor-thin margin opposing a balanced budget amendment in the Senate got a lot thinner Tuesday when Louisiana freshman Democrat Mary Landrieu announced she would vote with the GOP on the bill despite some reservations about its language. With Landrieu's qualified support, the Republican leadership is just one vote shy of the needed two-thirds supermajority. With all 55 Republicans and 11 Democrats supporting the measure, the move means that freshman Senator Robert Torricelli will cast the deciding ballot in a vote that could come as early as next Friday. The New Jersey Democrat is being...
Badu, whose original name was Erykah Wright (she gave herself the surname in homage to scat music), was born and raised in Dallas (she now lives in Brooklyn, New York). She studied theater at Louisiana's Grambling State University but, after deciding that "a degree is a piece of paper," left to pursue a music career. Kedar Massenburg, a 32-year-old record-company executive, heard Badu's demo tape and offered to sign her to his fledgling label, Kedar Entertainment. Says Badu: "I had several offers, but I went with him because he was young, black, very smart...
DIED. RICHARD BERRY, 61, singer and composer; in his sleep; in Los Angeles. He wrote Louie Louie, the raucous, unintelligible rock-'n'-roll anthem that inspired many risque versions and attracted the attention of the FBI, which launched a two-year investigation of the lyrics. In 1956 the Louisiana-born Berry sold rights to his works for $750 but finally regained royalties in 1986 of some $2 million...
Although she lives in recently rain- and snow-ravaged Seattle, Anderson visited Louisiana over the holiday...