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Seeing as it was my first time on the West Coast (and my first time west of the Mississippi, for that matter), my first day in town gave the flavor of the city: I got ankle-deep in the Pacific, breathed in the palm trees and the smog, and got stuck in brutal traffic...
DIED. SHELBY FOOTE, 88, Civil War historian who became a national celebrity--much to his befuddlement--after lending his courtly eloquence, encyclopedic expertise and honeyed Mississippi drawl to 89 appearances in the 1990 Ken Burns TV series on the war; in Memphis, Tenn. He wrote six novels, but his most famous book was a panoramic, three-volume history of the war, written over 20 years with an old-fashioned ink-dipped pen. A crackling storyteller and vivid portraitist, the onetime recluse wowed 40 million viewers of the PBS documentary, garnering critics' kudos and a slew of marriage proposals...
...left the Christian Coalition in 1997 to found a political consultancy, said he was counting on Abramoff "to help me with some contacts." As it turned out, Abramoff needed them too. In 2000 Alabama was considering establishing a state lottery, which would compete with the casino business of the Mississippi band of Choctaws, an Abramoff client. Norquist and Reed were well positioned to help. "ATR was opposed to a government-run lottery for the same reason we're opposed to government-run steel mills," Norquist told TIME. Reed publicly opposed gambling. It wouldn't do to have casino owners directly...
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CONVICTED. EDGAR RAY KILLEN, 80, former Ku Klux Klansman accused of orchestrating the 1964 murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in Mississippi, of manslaughter; on the 41st anniversary of the crime that helped speed passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act; in Philadelphia, Miss. The first person to face murder charges in the case--a jury deadlocked over his conviction on civil rights violations in a 1967 federal trial--Killen was sentenced to the maximum of 60 years in prison...