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...That's why Lott had developed a sudden affection for Dean Barkley. "We're offering to be helpful to him in any way we can," the Mississippi senator told TIME with a coy southern drawl. Get Barkley to side with the Republicans on leadership votes and Lott could score a counter-coup on Daschle...
...rural Appalachia gave him a distinctive understanding on a history of exploitation rarely addressed in courses here. The contrast between perceptions of the poor at Harvard and their day-to-day reality was striking to Maggie J. Morgan ’04 when she arrived here from Tupelo, Mississippi. “People here need a broader perspective of how others actually live. Many think poor people are just some abstract group that needs to be reformed,” she said...
When I called guidance counselors at high schools near the homes of students I interviewed, they were quite surprised to hear from somebody at Harvard. Patricia A. Hamilton, the senior counselor at Morgan’s public high school in Tupelo, Mississippi, was disappointed that Harvard did not keep in touch with her school after Morgan enrolled. “Harvard doesn’t send materials like the other schools do,” she said, which is a shame given that her school has talented students who might apply “if they had a little encouragement...
Muhammad--then named John Allen Williams--tried on his first identity in his hometown of Scotlandville, a Mississippi River community in Baton Rouge, La. In high school he was a top football player, says James Johnson, an alumnus of the school who worked with the booster club. "I remember him as a good team player." After graduating in 1978, Williams enlisted in the Louisiana Army National Guard, working as a carpenter and welder in a unit that repaired buildings. Three years later, he married his high school sweetheart, Carol Kaglear, and they had a son, Lindbergh, whom he liked...
...error occurred while processing this directive]DIED. STEPHEN AMBROSE, 66, best-selling American historian whose books fed a popular appetite for stories of Allied valor in World War II; in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The former University of Wisconsin football star made his name in the academic world with multi-volume biographies of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon before crashing the bestseller charts in 1992 with Band of Brothers, the first in a string of hugely successful patriotic histories. Ambrose, whose reputation was tarnished earlier this year by the discovery of plagiarized passages in several of his books, also served...