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...Cash and Carter to open up, Mangold spent hours with them on the phone and at their Hendersonville, Tenn., home. He asked general questions (To Johnny: What did it feel like to do drugs? To June: Do you recall the first time Johnny touched you?), tape-recorded the answers and worked them into his drafts, which he shared with the couple. And finally, a few months before Carter and Cash died (within four months of each other in 2003), he found out that they had given in to temptation one night after a show in Las Vegas, that Carter...
...salvage a potentially deflating photo op last week. The Rev. Jesse Jackson had arrived with a bus convoy of what was supposed to be 200 New Orleans evacuees returning home but turned out to be mostly down-and-out residents of other cities like Mobile, Ala., and Memphis, Tenn., looking for reconstruction jobs. The event could have been an embarrassing rebuke of Nagin's come-home rallying efforts, but the mayor turned it around by welcoming the new arrivals as a "test case" for the city's job opportunities...
...calligraphy or quality of the paper on which something was written can also confer extra value. "As we head toward a paperless society that communicates in an abbreviated, computer-generated style," says Debbie Gordon, founder of Snappy Auctions in Nashville, Tenn., "many people are drawn to the attention to detail in penmanship, expression and beauty of paper that reveals a slower way of life." And eBay, along with eBay drop-off centers for those who don't want to run an auction themselves, has made selling ephemera easier than ever...
...usually be fruitless and depressing--and can lead to suicide, according to Dr. Jack Drescher of the American Psychiatric Association, who has studied programs that attempt to alter sexuality. Last month Tennessee officials charged that one of the longest-running evangelical ministries for gays, Love in Action of Memphis, Tenn., was operating unlicensed mental-health facilities. The state said Love in Action must close two residential homes--which include beds for teenagers--or apply for a license. (The ministry's attorney, Nate Kellum, said in an e-mail that the licensure requirement "is intended for facilities that treat mental illness...
...said the initial relief response to the devastation along the Gulf Coast was not acceptable. Given the past reluctance of the Administration to hold anyone accountable for failure, it only remains to be seen who will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom after this tragedy. BUCK RUTLEDGE Knoxville, Tenn...