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Alexander, a multimillionaire lawyer whose ruthless intensity is nicely camouflaged by his courtly manner, carries a blue-ribbon resume. He served as Education Secretary to George Bush and earlier won acclaim as two-term Governor of Tennessee for reforming education and attracting high-paying jobs to his state. Alexander's stump speech touts a neopopulist plan to transfer $200 billion in federal programs ranging from welfare to law enforcement back to the states, communities, churches and families that handled those responsibilities before the New Deal...
...Asian American Dance group will perform a ribbon dance had fan dance. The ribbon dance is usually performed for the New Year, while the fan dance is a court dance, according to dancer Cecilia Chan...
...Decency Act was mostly a side issue. Smolan declined to drape his pages in black, although he did include a fiercely worded attack on the legislation by Internet activist John Perry Barlow, and he did agree late in the day to add to his "Welcome" screen a blue ribbon signifying solidarity with the protesters. But he did not go out of his way to cover the protest; it is mentioned only briefly in the story that accompanies an electronic image of the Clinton signing ceremony...
...Shaolin Kung Fu school held a martial arts demonstration and the Asian American Association's Dance Troupe performed a ribbon dance...
...puddle contained bits of what he feels certain was brain tissue, and leading from it to the excavation was the unmistakable trail of a human body that had been dragged. The ribbon of blood and brain bits petered out. "It was a terrible recognition," he says. "I was shaking, and I lost myself for a few moments. But I had to go on and pretend everything was usual." As he tells it, later "the mountain of earth grew," and "then one day at the end of June or early July, it was flattened and apparently sown, because after a while...