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...mother, who admits her prejudice toward blacks was not dispelled until late in her life. Clinton never played with black children, and the one ; black friend he remembers from Hope was his grandparents' maid Odessa. "I visited with Odessa years later. I remember rocking with her on her porch." Asked, he cannot remember Odessa's last name...
...heart of downtown, near a city power works and a Chrysler assembly plant, Victoria Park offers serene, curving streets and handsome colonial- and Cape Cod-style homes. The incongruous setting did not deter builders from snapping up city-owned lots for a dollar apiece, then designing gracious homes with porch decks, two-car garages and cathedral ceilings. Buyers, unfazed by the city's mean reputation, grabbed 70 of the 86 available houses, for prices that were typically 25% less than comparable homes in the suburbs. Among the first new owners: a Desert Storm nurse, a church minister...
...Bush-Quayle synecdoche, attitude, symbolism and code words stand in for real action and accomplishment. The Bush Administration is short on both coherent programs and resources of leadership to approach the problems. An elaborate rhetorical porch, with gorgeous traditional columns, fronts an empty house. In any case, Presidents, Vice Presidents and other public officials are elected to lead and act first of all. Moral leadership and vision are vital, but somehow the right to deliver sermons has to be convincingly earned...
Officers Paul G. Westlund received two prestigious Life Saving Awards, for helping nurse a man who was shot in the Mission Hill Projects and for scaling the porch of a burning house to save a family of four. Both incidents occurred in January...
...inevitably the anticipation of sampling exotic Southern menus killed the actual experience. The scallop and crab casserole at the Rice Planters in Myrtle Beach was drowned in Old Bay seasoning, the fried alligator was too chewy and scaly at the snooty Poogan's Porch in Charleston, and the meatloaf and mashed potatoes at Wilson's Soul Food in Athens oozed with orange grease...