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With his broad shoulders, silver hair and deep, drawling voice, Thad Cochran seems a paragon of the old-fashioned Southern politician. He is not. As the first Republican since Reconstruction to win a Senate seat from Mississippi, Cochran, 46, personifies the changing face of the Deep South. A boosterish supporter of Reaganomics, Cochran is less conservative on civil rights and funding for public education. His easygoing geniality, moreover, has an appeal that extends far beyond his white, urban, upwardly mobile core constituency. Even Democratic Challenger William Winter concedes, "There is no way I would win a popularity contest with Thad...
...creatures who populate the planet have always fascinated the one identified by Shakespeare as "the paragon of animals." Naturalist Darryl Stewart's entertaining Almanac shows why. Scarcely a creature crawls or jumps by without a tale...
...Paragon recently published "Mind and Brian: the Many faceted Problems," editied by Sir John Eccles, a 1963 Nobel Laureate...
Villee said that Paragon "hopes to make itself self-supporting" eventually. "[Our decisions] are completely independent" of the Reverend Moon, added Villee yesterday...
...Paragon House] is a long-term project to get people affiliated with them--it gives them [the Church] legitimacy," said Stephen Hassan, an ex-follower of Reverend Moon...