Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...having lunch with Tim McGraw, the country-music superstar, at a family-style Southern-food joint in Nashville. Your observations and reflections: 1) McGraw is one of those guys who actually belong in a cowboy hat. He looks cool in a cowboy hat. If you've ever seen, say, a presidential candidate in a cowboy hat, you know this is not always an easy trick to pull off. 2) Right now McGraw is wearing a hat that his wife, the country-music superstar Faith Hill, gave him--a baseball cap with COVER GIRL written above the brim. Several fellow diners...
...born in Baltimore, Md., in 1908, when it was still a sleepy Southern town, and he attended its segregated schools. After graduating from Howard Law School--the University of Maryland's law school didn't admit blacks--Marshall hung up a shingle in his hometown and did volunteer legal work for the local N.A.A.C.P. One of his early cases challenged pay gaps in education--black elementary school teachers in Maryland earned $621 a year, while white janitors made $960. Marshall's mother was one of those underpaid teachers...
...popular imagination the way she did. Princess Grace of Monaco was perhaps the nearest thing, but then she had really been a movie star, which surely provided the vital luster to her role as figurehead of a country that is little more than a gambling casino on the southern coast of France. The rather louche glamour of Monaco's royal family is nothing compared with the fading but still palpable grandeur of the British monarchy. To those who savor such things, British royals are the first among equals of world royalty, the last symbols of an aristocratic society that...
...Four singles--a pair by junior first baseman Erik Binkowski and one apiece by Carmack and senior catcher Jason Keck--was all Harvard could string together in its worst offensive performance of the season, and its first shutout since the season opener at Charleston Southern...
...owner of this property recently received an award for his efforts in the preservation of open space. The award was given by the Southern New England Forest Consortium and the Rhode Island Chapter of the American Planning Association. In presenting the award, the director of the Consortium said "Over the past 20 years this owner has lovingly developed over 300 acres of land abutting the ocean and the Trustom Pond Wildlife Refuge...