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...notice that this ole world isn't spinning like it used to? To keep clocks in synch the National Institute of Standards and Technology will add an extra, or leap, second on June 30. Atomic clocks use a length of a second that doesn't represent the long-term slowing trend, so they're a teeny-weeny bit fast. Says NIST spokesman Collier Smith: "We stop the hands of the clock long enough for the world to catch...
...Nick Lowe's Battlefield ("All around there is desolation/ And scenes of devastation/ Of a love being torn apart") get swallowed and spat out by the jouncy banjo, the skiffle beat and the Jordanaires-style backing vocals, till the whole thing sounds like a minstrel show staged by Grand Ole Opry; everyone has a high time playing at misery...
Lott felt a kinship with members of the lower social orders at Ole Miss but characteristically did not express it by confronting the snobs and bigots. Instead he turned it to his political advantage. Even as he ingratiated himself with the big men and women on campus, Lott in his political campaigns lavished attention on the little people, stressing his roots as the son of a shipyard worker. Soon he had built himself another snaggletoothed majority, which helped win him election as president of the interfraternity council and as a cheerleader...
During Lott's senior year at Ole Miss, on Sept. 30, 1962, armed U.S. marshals moved to install Air Force veteran James Meredith as its first black student. They were met by rock- and rifle-wielding students and other rowdies. In the violence that ensued, two were killed, scores injured and 150 arrested. A small band of white students publicly called for peaceful integration of the campus, but Lott was not among them. Nor was he among the rioters. He concentrated on keeping his frat brothers away from the violence, and he succeeded. "Yes, you could say that I favored...
After earning a B.A. in public administration, Lott enrolled in the Ole Miss law school. By now his parents were separated and unable to help him financially. He had saved some money from summer jobs at a root-beer stand in Pascagoula and at the local hospital as a janitor mopping rooms. He took out federal student loans. And he secured paid jobs with the university, first as a recruiter and later as a fund raiser for the alumni association, where he expanded his political network...