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Rucker, Felber, Bryan and Sonefeld met in 1986 as undergraduates at the University of South Carolina at Columbia--the band's name came from nicknames given to two university classmates, one with owl-like glasses and another with full cheeks. Making the cultural transition from the North to the South was a difficult one for the group's three Yankees. At the university at that time, band members recall, whites would sometimes be kicked out of frats for having too many black friends. Hootie & the Blowfish's very first gig was held at an off-campus fraternity with a reputation...
...People have no idea how fraudulent people who claim to be scholars can be," says Johnson. Stocky, graying, slightly owl-like, he teaches New Testament at Atlanta's Emory. Like Crossan, Johnson took priestly orders as a young man but gave up the collar in order to marry. But Johnson never broke with the church, and as time went on, he became progressively more alarmed at the work of his fellow scholars...
...thanks to deep discounts and aggressive salesmanship. Under Steve's leadership, the family business, Forbes Inc.--which owns 14 newspapers and 10 magazines plus real estate--has, according to Forbes, been profitable. As testimony to his economic savvy, his friends cite the fact that he has won the Crystal Owl award, given by USX Corp. for the most accurate economic forecast, four times--more than any other financial journalist...
...course, the media--live in a smug and isolated cocoon of privilege and perks, oblivious to the needs and common-sense wisdom of those of us who do the real work of this great nation: meeting payrolls, raising families, giving to charity and shooting the occasional spotted owl--all activities that were completely unknown to me and my neighbors back in Chevy Chase, Maryland. True, I haven't actually seen a spotted owl yet, even though I've already been living in the Pacific Northwest for more than 72 hours. They clearly don't exist. Which just goes to show...
WASHINGTON, D.C. Was it the wise protecting the wise? Asked to overturn Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt's decision to protect the northern spotted owl, the Supreme Court denied the case without comment. At issue was whether some 6.8 million acres of federal lands in Oregon, Washington, and California could be classified as "critical habitat" by Secretary Babbitt under the Endangered Species Act without first filing environmental impact statements required under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Backed by the local timber industry, lawyers for Douglas County in southwestern Oregon said Babbitt couldn't cut that corner. They sued the Interior...