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...that would sound a lot less convincing coming from a multimillionaire trial lawyer if Edwards didn't do a persuasive job of selling what he also is: the son of a small-town (Robbins, N.C., pop. 970 ) textile-mill worker and a shop owner. Offering his version of the log-cabin legend, Edwards likes to tell about visiting Washington for the first time in 1976 as a law school student with a summer internship at the Securities and Exchange Commission. After climbing aboard a bus, he was humiliated by the driver when he didn't know what to do with...
...President Jack Meyer acknowledged that HMC and Soros purchased significant shares of both Novolipetsk, Russia's second-largest steel mill, and Sidanko Oil, one of the world's largest oil companies...
...patrol car. Outraged black pastors organize a march into white territory. Hawkers sell T shirts with the still missing Cody Martin's picture. A chillingly efficient mother's group equipped with a corpse-sniffing dog searches for the boy. Jesse follows. Bigfeet from the national press and TV mill around. Jesse knows more than they do, but not much more. Detective Council knows more than Jesse, but only a little more. Brenda's boss, a black woman who runs a biracial day-care center, says that Brenda is a good, stable, caring worker. But something is wrong, still, with...
...four years now, I have shared my thoughts with the Harvard population. I think, sometimes, that it would have been easier to say nothing. And, of course, it would have been. For the private sphere is a great deal more comfortable than the public, and J. S. Mill never promised believers in his disputatious Nirvana a free ride...
DIED. WRIGHT MORRIS, 88, writer-photographer of the middle-American gothic, who spun Fargo-like tales of small-town strangeness about his native Nebraska; in Mill Valley, Calif. His 33 books netted awards, but his plainspoken prose didn't sell well, dooming Morris to the dubious distinction of being one of America's most admired but least read men of letters...