Word: southeasterners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only two degrees of separation from the ubiquitous philanthropist. Those who haven't taken money from him usually work with someone who has. Washington Post matriarch Katharine Graham writes in her memoir that Nixon wanted Scaife to buy the Post during the Watergate scandal. Scaife has also financed the Southeastern Legal Foundation, a backer of former FBI agent Gary Aldrich's loosely sourced, Clinton-bashing best seller Unlimited Access, and the Free Congress Foundation, which once set up a toll-free hot line for women who claimed they had been sexually harassed by President Clinton. (Please hold; your call will...
...Manning made a most unusual decision: he returned for his senior year. In the past five years, it has become a matter of course for the most talented underclassmen to leave school and enter the NFL draft. Manning stayed at Tennessee for another shot at the national championship, the Southeastern Conference championship, and the Heisman Trophy, the award given to college football's most outstanding player. Manning succeeded only in earing the Conference title. The feature story asked Manning if he regretted his decision. Manning said absolutely not, that he would not change one thing about the past year...
...last chance to vindicate his honor. (He had earned his bachelors degree in three years.) It gave him a chance for vengeance against the teams that had beaten Tennessee. It gave him a chance to prove the claim that Tennessee was not only the best team in the Southeastern Conference, but also in the nation. It gave him a chance to prove his mettle to the Heisman voters from previous years. He failed at all but one. So what? He placed his honor over his pocketbook...
...Justice Department has begun to test the program with a pilot tracking initiative called Coordinated Interagency Students (CIPRIS) in 22 colleges and universities in the southeastern United States, including Duke, Auburn and Clemson universities...
...Southeastern Conference underwent a power shift Saturday as No. 9 Georgia (7-1, 5-1) upset No. 13 Florida 37-13 and No. 19 Mississippi State surprised No. 17 Auburn 20-0. The results gave No. 8 Tennessee (6-1, 4-1) and No. 19 Mississippi State (6-2, 3-2) the inside tracks to winning the East and West divisions, respectively, while knocking the Gators (6-2, 4-2) out of contention...