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SENATOR TRENT LOTT The majority whip is likely to beat out fellow Mississippian Thad Cochran to succeed Dole...
...memorial] would be an appropriate thing to have, simply because even though at the time they were Confederate soldiers, they were Americans too," says Stephen L. Shackelford '99, a native Mississippian. "We're not memorializing the Confederacy itself, but simply some people that gave their lives in a terrible struggle...
...meant people like Hill. A native Mississippian with three children, the clean-cut, ever smiling 40-year-old was an ordained minister and regarded as an ideal neighbor. Yet his father had signed a warrant against him for assault when he was 17, and an ex-pastor confides that two churches had expelled him in 1992 for preaching the idea that came to consume him: that to kill an abortion provider was justifiable homicide. With Gunn's death, however, Hill found a more receptive audience: talk- and news-show hosts. Appearing first on Donahue, then on Nightline and Sonya Live...
...WILDERNESS FOR ONLY A FEW MONTHS, the Republican Party is sorely in need of a new Moses. After a tense five-way contest, a badly divided G.O.P. chose Haley Barbour as its national chairman, charging the portly Mississippian with the daunting task of bringing together moderates, conventional conservatives and a right wing fixated on "family values," notably abortion...
This little shocker is just the beginning of a long, ambitious first novel by a young Mississippian. The publisher has ordered up a 75,000-copy first printing. Director Alan Pakula (Klute, All the President's Men) has bought it for the movies. What Donna Tartt has attempted -- and largely brought off -- is a challenging combination of a mystery (will they get caught or won't they?), an exploration of evil, both banal and bizarre, and a generous slice of the world as seen by the author, a brainy graduate of Bennington who has mastered Greek and English literature...