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...place: the Mississippi of the late 1950s and early '60s, a state infamous for its violent resistance to black equality, even as it began to offer undreamed-of opportunities to the bright children of blue-collar whites. Lott, the son of a schoolteacher and a sharecropper turned shipyard pipe fitter, not only could get loans to enter the University of Mississippi, the state's top nursery of political talent; he also joined a prestigious fraternity, Sigma...
...Washington bureau chief, grew up in Pascagoula, Mississippi, the only son of a shipyard machinist. So we thought he might be well suited to report and write this week's profile of Senate majority leader Trent Lott, who also grew up in Pascagoula, the only son of a shipyard pipe fitter. Goodgame is so familiar with Lott's milieu that many sources he interviewed began by asking him "So how's your mama?" When one source wasn't in, he was found at a meeting with Goodgame's uncle. "Everyone back home is so proud of Trent Lott," Goodgame says...
...November 1995, a pipe burst in the main reading room of Yale University's Sterling Library, its main stacks...
...United States has no moral integrity. For over 200 years it has inculcated its citizens with lies and pipe dreams about a nation of "immigrants." It tends to disregard the millions of Africans brought as cargo, the millions of Native Americans who had occupied the land for centuries before the first European arrived and the millions of Latinos whose forbears slept one night and woke up the next day as a people oppressed by the United States...
...that Bowe missed his wife and five children. Perhaps it was the haircut, or that the former heavyweight champion was not allowed to box along with the other recruits. But Bowe's major malfuction may simply have been that at 29 and a multimillionaire, he has other, more comfortable pipe dreams to pursue. "I would think Riddick would like to serve his country, but in some other capacity," Newman told CNN-SI television. "Maybe now he can run for Congress or something...