Word: michigans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Davis, a mathematics concentrator, grew up in rural Bronson, Mich., population 2,300 and part of Michigan's aging industrial belt. He describes his background as "fairly poor." Most people in his hometown were from similar social situations...
...Davis' high-school classmates dropped out, but none had ever applied to an Ivy League school either. Of his graduating class of 72, about a quarter went on to college, mainly the University of Michigan or Michigan State University. Most graduates return to Bronson to work in blue-collar or clerical, service-sector occupations...
...envious of the publicity the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City got that he sent yet another of his bombs to get the media coverage he apparently craved. I cannot begin to understand this mentality. We need to do something to stop this type of behavior. MARCIE SZCZUBELEK Mount Pleasant, Michigan Via E-mail...
...past. Nothing is without a cost, and in this case payment is exacted in lives with more "quantity" but not necessarily better "quality." Reverence for life must find balance with human compassion to ensure the dignity that each of us should be allowed in dying. MELISSA QUADE Paw Paw, Michigan Via E-mail
...lesbian couples whose mass "wedding" ceremony last month made a loud political statement in San Francisco, Gerry Crane planned his commitment ceremony to be a private and discreet affair. On a misty day last October, 80 of Crane's closest friends gathered at a botanical garden in Grand Rapids, Michigan. With a Presbyterian minister presiding, Crane, 31, a high school music director, and his lover of four years, Randy Block, 36, affirmed their love and exchanged gold rings. Almost immediately the religious right directed its ire at Crane with the pinpoint accuracy of a laser-guided missile...