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...Williams is sloppy yet again when, in discussing structural poverty in New Orleans, he mentions that Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana—states that were among the slowest to integrate—have the highest levels of black poverty. He inexplicably fails to acknowledge any connection between these two facts...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ending the Black ‘Culture of Failure’ | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

...this helps explains why Presidential Advisor Karl Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney have also shown up for campaign fundraisers near the Mississippi River. "It's seen as one of the top seats that's going to switch," says Donna Hoffman, a University of Northern Iowa political science assistant professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2006: The Battle for an Open Seat in Iowa | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...DIED. Robert Earl Jones, 96, veteran actor of stage and screen who famously played Robert Redford's con-man mentor in the Oscar-winning The Sting; in Englewood, New Jersey. The Mississippi native and onetime prizefighter lent his mellifluous voice and astute, low-key style to such Broadway shows as The Gospel at Colonus and All God's Chillun Got Wings, and won acclaim in 1962 for the off-Broadway Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, which co-starred his son and fellow baritone, James Earl Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 9/25/2006 | See Source »

DIED. Robert Earl Jones, 96, veteran actor of stage and screen who famously played Robert Redford's con-man mentor in the Oscar-winning The Sting; in Englewood, N.J. The Mississippi native and onetime prizefighter lent his mellifluous voice and astute, low-key style to such Broadway shows as The Gospel at Colonus and All God's Chillun Got Wings and won acclaim off-Broadway for Moon on a Rainbow Shawl in 1962--which co-starred his son and fellow baritone, James Earl Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 2, 2006 | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

SOUTH DAKOTA Native American men residing here fare the worst, on average living only to age 58 MISSISSIPPI RIVER Life expectancy for counties immediately east and west of the Mississippi River is 76.6 and 77.2, respectively APPALACHIA AND THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY Low income whites here die on average four years sooner than their neighbors in the rural Northern Plains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Live Here and Prosper | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

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