Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Politically, the lottery solves a problem that has vexed Southern Democrats for years. The public schools in states like Alabama and South Carolina are badly underfunded and consistently score near the bottom in national rankings. But tax hating is one of the South's cherished pastimes. Carville's epiphany was that if Democrats could portray the lottery as a tax-free way to improve education, government spending could once again become a winning issue. And the Republicans, hostage to the Christian right's antigambling fervor, would be painted into a corner...
Moody, who was an honor student in high school and studied engineering at Southern Illinois University, was a mess by the time she set out for Genesis House last New Year's Day. (On the train she spotted a friendly-looking man, went a couple of extra stops and made $10 giving him oral sex under an apartment-house stairwell before getting back on the train and reaching her destination.) Now in her ninth month of rehabilitation, she's a new woman, unfailingly polite and quick to offer a visitor a snack or a cup of cocoa. Her days...
...Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art caused a new legion of fans and clients to seek him out. In addition to restoring Cracchiolo's house, the architect has a new project in Carmel Valley and recently finished a house in Santa Monica Canyon. Koenig, who teaches at the University of Southern California, isn't completely happy with his lot, though. He wishes his technique of building with glass and steel had been more fully embraced. "It should have taken off, especially in California," he says, partly blaming the building industry for its resistance to the idea. "They're the perfect houses...
...weeks, Harvard will send a strong contingent of freshmen sailors--Lavers, Dorfman, Reeve, Brian Smith and James Benenson--to the Freshman Fall Invite at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. In three weeks, Captain Pete Strothman will race in the single-handed Nationals at the University of Southern California...
...hordes of talking heads analyzing the results of Tuesday's election have gotten it all wrong. The real winners on Tuesday were not southern Democrats, President Clinton or the Bush brothers. The real winners were roosters...