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...told her they loved the idea. Wilkinson went on to win, closing his campaign with a commercial that showed a crowd chanting, "Taxes, no! Lottery, yes!" Carville went on to Georgia, where in 1990 he made a lottery the centerpiece of another campaign for Governor, this one by Zell Miller...
Eight years later, James Carville is James Carville, Zell Miller is retiring as Georgia Governor with an 80% approval rating, and the lottery is being hailed as the secret to the Democratic Party's astonishing rebirth in the South. Last week in Alabama and South Carolina, two states that had been trending hard toward the G.O.P., Democrats ousted sitting Republican Governors by single-mindedly pledging to follow Georgia into the scratch-and-win business. Political consultants predict the issue will dominate next year's legislative session in Tennessee and the Governor's race in North Carolina in the year...
Skeptics charged that lottery proceeds would disappear into the morass of general government revenue. But once elected, Miller carefully earmarked the money for specific education programs, most notably the HOPE Scholarship, which pays state-college tuition for any Georgia high school graduate who maintains a B average. The scholarship, which has sent more than 330,000 students to college, has in a few short years attained sacred-cow status in the Peach State. The Democratic and Republican candidates to succeed Miller, each of whom once opposed a lottery, practically fell over one another to pledge HOPE's continuation. In Alabama...
...among other U.S. venues next year. Original Eames pieces fetch high prices. Bonhams, a London auction house, is holding a sale of the couple's furniture this week. The reserve price for a prototype dining chair: $20,000. For those with less extravagant budgets, the home division of Herman Miller, resurrected in 1994 after countless inquiries from the public about where to buy Eames furniture, has rereleased several pieces--this year it was the "erector set" storage unit, yours for a mere...
...Miller--herself 1997 Ivy League Player of the Year--has also continued her brilliant play this season. She led the team in goals with seven, and has added six assists...