Word: ruralism
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...Whitewater Development Company, which the Clintons coo-owned with family friend James B. McDougal, was a failed attempt to sell vacation homes in rural Arkansas...
...believe that. She said that if we come home, they are going to do it for her no matter what." Though Oluloro belongs to the Yoruba, perhaps the most Westernized of Nigeria's tribes and one in which female circumcision has long been in decline, she hails from a rural area where it is still widely practiced...
Could it have happened this way? It is dusk at the Supreme Court chambers. Portraits of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Felix Frankfurter gaze from the walls. A 54-year-old Justice from a rural white state cues up the official Supreme Court CD player, and we hear . . . Luther Campbell's bawdy, silly rap parody of the Roy Orbison classic, Oh, Pretty Woman: "Big hairy woman, you need to shave that stuff/ Big hairy woman, you know I bet it's tough/ Big hairy woman, all that hair ain't legit/ 'cause you look like 'Cousin It.' " Slowly, almost imperceptibly...
...Clintons were partners with family friend James B. McDougal in the Whitewater company, which was a failed attempt to sell vacation homes in rural Arkansas. McDougal was also theowner of a failed savings and loan for which stateregulators who answered to Governor Clinton wereresponsible. Is addition, Mrs. Clinton wasMcDougal's lawyer...
...government agreed to more than a dozen reforms, including speedy rural electrification; more housing, health clinics and schools; more bilingual education for Indian communities; new state legislative boundaries to increase Indian representation; plots of land for peasants; and reform of the repressive justice system. The government also promised to convene a special session of Congress to bolster laws prohibiting discrimination against Indians, and agreed to help Indian communities compete fairly under the North American Free Trade Agreement...