Word: mason-dixon
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...packed up my bags in Cambridge and flew to Atlanta just over five weeks ago, bleary-eyed from a hellish semester and determined to have the Best and Most Adventurous Summer Ever. It was my first journey below the Mason-Dixon line beyond the typical family Disney World trip. Like Ponce de Leon, I began a Southern quest for eternal youth, hoping to discover a new place—and reinvent myself...
When Hendricks committed to Harvard, the Crimson was coming off three straight Ivy titles and was a year removed from a No. 24 national ranking. Harvard had become one of the top baseball programs above the Mason-Dixon line, and Crimson coach Joe Walsh was using that to bring in talent. And besides, Harvard is Harvard...
...writer-director, who had made his rep with no-budget comedies about the filthiest people south of the Mason-Dixon line, for once gave his movie an upbeat conclusion that real life couldn't match. "The Buddy Deane Show" never was integrated; it ended its run in the mid-60s as white-bread as always, and staler than ever. By this time "Bandstand" had moved from its original location in Philadelphia (100 miles north of Baltimore) to Los Angeles, where the kids had better bodies and deeper tans, and even the white-ethnic tinge of the teen dancers disappeared into...
...demographics have shifted the balance of power. The deciding votes are now in the west--in Tacoma, Seattle, Bellevue--while the bulk of public lands affected by the west's environmental enthusiasms lie east of the mountains, which are the Northwest's cultural wall, its Mason-Dixon line. To apple farmers six hours east of Seattle, it was the "damned environmentalists" of the Clinton Administration who brought down on their heads something that felt to the locals like an economic Waco. Orchards had prospered because of irrigation made possible by Columbia's dams. After several species of salmon were...
Playing college hockey south of the Mason-Dixon line, Alabama-Huntsville doesn’t often experience venues like the raucous Lynah Rink...