Word: mississippi
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...Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Transnational Studies Initiative, but he joked that it was “brought to you by the letter H and the number 38.” Thirty-eight years ago, when it was first broadcast, Sesame Street was banned in Mississippi because of its interracial cast. Today, the show continues to support the message of “we are different but we are the same,” Knell said. Knell showed a clip from the South African version of Sesame Street featuring a muppet named Kami, who is a five-year...
...black stump" is the term for a very remote datum point, as in, "He lives way out there beyond the black stump.") Our country towns are in decline. Their inhabitants keep moving to the coast, away from the center. Because Australia has no fertile center--no Great Plains, no Mississippi--there is no place for them in that immense, empty outback...
...execution of Big Daddy is flawless—he is every inch the crude-mouthed monarch of his family—but he has not quite acquired the Southern accent. Especially when he lectures from an arm chair, Big Daddy comes off more as The Godfather than a Mississippi aristocrat...
...split decision on Southern Governors After a single term marred by hiring scandals, GOP Governor Ernie Fletcher was bounced by Steve Beshear, a Democrat who had been out of politics since 1987. In Mississippi, GOP Governor Haley Barbour was re-elected easily, showing that he may be the only Gulf Coast politician whose fortunes were undimmed by Hurricane Katrina...
...days after her roughest night as a candidate - the Oct. 30 Democratic presidential debate - Hillary Clinton could be found ambling along a spectacular bluff overlooking the Mississippi River in a town called Clinton, Iowa, with former Vice President Walter Mondale, a ghost of Democratic disasters past. It was the photo op for an endorsement that seemed a potential kiss of death. Mondale is a smart and decent man, but he ran the worst sort of cautious front-runner campaign for the nomination in 1984, was nearly upended by the younger, more dynamic Gary Hart in the primaries and was utterly...