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...Conway George from WCVB-TV in Boston, Frank Gibney Jr. of Newsweek, Maria Henson of the Lexington Herald-Leader, Jerry Kammer of The Arizona Republic, David Lewis of CNN, Katherine Molinski of Reuters, Alan K. Ota of The Oregonian in Portland, Melanie Sill of The News and Observer of Raleigh, N.C., Dan Stets of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Larry Tye of The Boston Globe
...pass through now and then. But they're mostly sketchy figures in suits and uniforms, the sorely afflicted or, like the ferryman, no-accounts who come to stud and go off to do something else. In 1910 the Birches move from Pasquotank to Raleigh, where matriarch Charlie Kate raises her daughter and granddaughter, practices medicine and becomes a Wake County legend: "Remember when she got Tessa Jerrod's arm out of the wringer? . . . Buttercup Spivey's dropped kidneys rose. Malcolm Taylor stopped wanting to scratch his missing leg. Everybody saw the miracles all around...
...retired schoolteacher in Raleigh, North Carolina, swears that she helps to bring the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to championship form by wearing Carolina blue nail polish. This year she had to search for three days to find the right shade. Dr. Vann Austin, a doctor in Pinehurst, North Carolina, outfits himself, his 75-year-old mother, his girlfriend and his daughter in Duke undies when madness strikes. A starched Atlanta accountant, spied last week glued to a TV set, was asked about his work schedule in the midst of income-tax season. "It's all secondary...
Burroughs, from Raleigh, N.C., receivedscholarship offers from Duke University, theUniversity of Virginia and the University of NorthCarolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. His brother andfather attended UNC, but he came to Harvardbecause the school offered both a top-20 tennisprogram and a first-class education...
...defiant ignorance voiced by many VCR-phobics may be a sign of technology backlash. "I'm electronically incorrect," says Kathy Harrison of Raleigh, North Carolina, who got a VCR for her birthday four years ago and hasn't taped a show yet. "I don't like appliances." Or it may be merely another case of American don't-know-how. In City Slickers, Billy Crystal spends much of one day on the trail fruitlessly trying to explain to Daniel Stern how to tape one show while watching another. "He'll never get it!" cries their partner, Bruno Kirby...