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...Pascagoula, which was quite different from most of the South. The town was defined by the Ingalls shipyard, which offered training and good wages and lured workers from all over the region. Most workers reckoned that whatever the state and local governments did to satisfy Ingalls--and the paper mill and the oil refinery and the shrimp-and crab-processing houses along the river--was money well spent...
...attract and retain industry, politicians gave away valuable land, tax abatements, municipal water, road improvements and exemptions from environmental protections. The paper mill smelled like rotten eggs, and the menhaden plant reeked of rotten fish, but the men who worked there would shrug and say, "All I smell...
...view-points and for a commitment to open-mindedness. It is scary because of the mailer's juvenile effort at intimidation and attempt to stifle free debate. Free speech, dialogue, and interchange in the "marketplace of ideas" are the very foundation of the liberal canon. What would John Stuart Mill have said? (My personal message to the not-so-intellectual hate-mailers, politics aside, is to learn the subtle difference between the ancient Buddhist symbol which they drew and the swastika which they tried to draw...
...fact that [the Fenno case] is not covered in any statutes or rules doesn't mean that it wouldn't fall within the province of the Ad Board, but it is not a grist of the mill case," Sander said...
...notable for a giant rock formation allegedly resembling a sleeping Jesus, a popular bumper sticker declares, THERE ISN'T MUCH TO SEE IN A SMALL TOWN, BUT YOU SURE DO HEAR A LOT. And the place in Livingston where you mostly hear it--rumors about layoffs at the lumber mill, fishing reports on the nearby Yellowstone River--is the downtown post office. The 1914 beaux arts sandstone edifice, surrounded by coffee shops, saddleries and movie theaters that have survived the town's trend toward franchised sprawl, is a kind of communal hitching post...