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Smaller corporations have followed the Marriott example. Terry Neese, who owns a personnel agency with a staff of 14 in Oklahoma City, makes an effort to work with local training institutes in her area to help place people with disabilities in jobs. Neese's personal motivation: her granddaughter Emily, 4, does not have a fully developed left arm. "I know my granddaughter will grow up to have a brilliant mind and a willing spirit," Neese says. "But what kinds of opportunities will she find available out there? I want to set an example in my own company." For example, Neese...
...explosions were nearly instantaneous. One Senate conservative, Oklahoma's James Inhofe, blasted Lott's gambit, telling reporters it was a "whitewash" designed to sacrifice the Constitution in the name of expediency. The 13 House impeachment "managers" who will prosecute the case in the Senate were particularly aggrieved by Lott's scheme, complaining that he had not even bothered to consult them before it became public. Drawn from the ranks of the House Judiciary Committee and led by its chairman, Henry Hyde, the managers have been preparing for their star turns as prosecutors in the trial of the century. When Lott...
...novel opens starkly--'They shoot the white girl first'--and then coils back and forth through a century of imagined history to explain who 'they' are and why, on a dewy Oklahoma morning in 1976, they felt compelled to storm a decaying mansion and wreak violence on the handful of women living within...
...Republican side, Lott is eager to get impeachment out of the way. But conservatives put him in his leadership post, and Senate majority whip Don Nickles of Oklahoma, another anti-Clinton hard-liner, is likely to play the same role in the Senate that DeLay played in the House--making sure the process is driven to the bitter end. After the impeachment vote, Lott issued a statement saying the date on which a trial would begin depended on how much time was needed for the President's lawyers to complete pretrial motions...
...show at the point is Flinder Boyd. The freshman standout, who recently received Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors, is averaging 5.0 assists per game, fourth in the league behind Harvard's Hill. Boyd, a Los Angeles native, turned down offers at such basketball powerhouses as Utah and Oklahoma, to try and help rebuild a Dartmouth program that finished next-to-last in the Ivies last year...