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Freshman Todd Meringoff, the Harvard men's tennis team's top player, competed at the Rolex National Indoor Tennis Championships in Minneapolis over the weekend. Meringoff, one of only two freshmen at the tournament, full 6-1, 6-0 to fifth-ranked Tamer El Sawy of Louisiana State...
Polls have shown that public support is greater for offering cash incentives to these women than for actually making a Norplant a condition for receiving benefits. In 1991 Louisiana state representative David Duke proposed paying welfare mothers to take advantage of state-subsidized Norplant...
Forty-six years ago, the Louisiana Congressional delegation, chaired this year by William Jefferson, began to bring Mardi Gras to Washington for delegates who could not go home to New Orleans, according to Bryan. The chair of the delegation traditionally appoints friends or relatives to be king and queen...
According to people involved with the event this year, many hope the leadership of Jefferson. Louisiana's first Black representative since Reconstruction, may help to ease the racial tension that has lately marred Mardi Gras...
Further, she said, she was chosen because her father is chair of the Louisiana Congressional delegation. "My father is African-American, so I am too," said Jefferson