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Southern Soulmates: It's pretty well known that the Crimson is the only undefeated team in the national top ten. In fact, Harvard is one of only two unbeaten teams in the country--the other is Centenary College in Shreveport...
...that surfaces in court papers. Even firms that may never emerge from bankruptcy are worth a look, he says, if the value of their / assets is not fully reflected in the price of their securities. Earlier this year, Bennett decided that bonds issued by Louisiana's Crystal Oil, a Shreveport-based company in bankruptcy, were worth more than 4 cents per dollar of face value. Four months after he recommended the bonds, the price jumped to 16 cents...
...yellow pickup, racing voters down dusty roads to the polls. They were married in 1950, and from there they went on to build a comfortable, prosperous life, largely through Sam's property dealings, and to have four children. One of them, Patti Harper, picked us up at the Shreveport airport with her own two offspring corralled in the back of her car, snarling for soft drinks. "We just had to do something about Edwin," Patti said, speaking of the incumbent Governor. "We were all tired of the jokes." Edwards' flamboyance, his taste for shooting craps and kissing pretty women...
Hungry for customers, a growing number of gangs are going national, with black gangs like Los Angeles' Crips and Chicago's Disciples establishing franchises in cities from Seattle to Shreveport, La. "They're all over," says Detective Robert Jackson of the Los Angeles police department gang detail. "We've got a glut of coke here in Los Angeles, and the price is down. They can make three times as much money in Phoenix or Denver." Phoenix has suffered seven gang-related murders this year. In Denver the first Crips were detected in 1984; last March police there busted a crack...
Prior to its launching, CoverMaker was extensively tested in a yearlong pilot program that involved 80 teachers and 2,000 students in 50 schools. The response from both groups was overwhelmingly positive. "The students love it," reports Georgia Lee, an American-history teacher at Captain Shreve High School in Shreveport, La. "They come in before school, during lunch, after school. Some of them were students who didn't even know where the library was before CoverMaker...