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...cerebral, but I've always thought he is a kind of unifier of the bodily parts of the country because he exudes calm and it doesn't seem like a fake calm. He walks along like a person who's not in a hurry and that's sort of Southern. He doesn't have any Southern roots at all, but we had him on Wait, Wait (in 1995) and he was really funny. I tend to think that anybody's who's funny is part Southern...
...What do you think about Sarah Palin? She's just a fascinating phenomenon. She's not Southern at all, certainly, but she's got guns and God and all that. The main thing is that she's just so good-looking. The camera loves her. Let me just say first, I deplore her politics and her world view, but she's the first sexy woman politician and that's kind of refreshing in a way. People call John F. Kennedy sexy and Obama sexy, but women politicians have tended to have to be unsexy, and she might have opened...
...freight manifest, obtained by the BBC, appeared to show that the Ukrainian ship seized by pirates last month carried weapons destined for once war-ravaged southern Sudan. The document also listed Kenya as a co-signee, countering Kenyan claims that the weapons were meant for its own army. South Sudan's government denies the claim...
...faculty member at the School of Social Work at the University of Southern California for 36 years, she remained as active at the end of her career as she was at the beginning. Frances wrote 10 books on social welfare and human services, and the breadth of her influence was exceptional...
...right. Duke was an abysmal 0-12 in 2006, Northwestern went 4-8, and Stanford finished 1-11. But with the slow redistribution of talent taking place in college football, those teams appear to be on the rise; Stanford is 3-3 this year and upset No. 1 Southern California last season, Northwestern is 5-0 and ranked No. 22 in the nation, and Duke is 3-2. Vanderbilt, another highly regarded academic institution, is 5-0 and ranked No. 13 in the nation despite playing in what is regarded as the most difficult conference in college football...