Word: oklahomas
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...General Tommy Franks and Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld left work one night recently for a stag dinner right out of a buddy movie. Back in January, their wives out of town, Franks and Rumsfeld hit a Georgetown sushi bar after the multimillionaire Pentagon chief decided to give the Oklahoma-born and Texas-reared artilleryman his first taste of raw fish. As Franks recalled it, "About midafternoon he said, 'Let's go eat sushi,' and I said, 'Eat what?' I told him I'd be proud to do it if he'd show me how, so he did." Both men enjoyed...
More important than its universally positive reception, Coles says, is the special issue DoubleTake published following the terrorist attacks in 2001, which represented the culmination of its mission. After its publication, Coles received a letter from a group of students in Tulsa, Oklahoma that “just made us feel that somehow that magazine had a purpose for a lot of people—not that we didn’t know that from earlier correspondance, but somehow, from far, distant Oklahoma, as Americans responding to an injury that really happened to the whole country…the response...
...Will Hunting and tell you, “It’s not your fault. It’s not your fault.” It’s not your fault that your quest for cultural understanding has not brought you anywhere near Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma or Missouri. Maybe we should blame these states’ departments of tourism. It’s not your fault that you don’t know anything about the Midwest beyond all the cruel stereotypes...
...Reparations Coordinating Committee filed the complaint after a local group, the Tulsa Reparations Committee, contacted them for help. This group had failed to obtain reparations from the Oklahoma state and Tulsa city governments over the past two years...
...Florida Supreme Court threw out an obstructionist lawsuit by the National Organization of Women. Today there are 37,000 Florida “Choose Life” plates and $1,480,000 has been raised to promote adoption and other pro-birth solutions. Alabama, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma have also recently put such plates on the road as well...