Word: tolbert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...James Tolbert has sued the school system to change those rules. And other home-school advocates have taken this issue to Michigan's legislature, where it has split the Republican Party. For Tolbert, it's an issue of basic fairness: "The state should provide these [athletic] benefits on a nondiscriminatory basis," says Stephen Safranek, the lawyer behind the Tolberts and six other families. "We all pay the same taxes...
...Tolberts of Pinckney, in southeastern Michigan, are all very tall. It can be hard for girls to be big, which is one reason James and Denise Tolbert were happy that Kristina, their 16-year-old, 6-ft. 3-in. daughter, wanted to play basketball. But Pinckney High School won't let Kristina on the team. Like virtually all schools in the state, Pinckney has a rule that no one can play any sport unless she's enrolled. And Kristina and her brother Josh (only 14 and already 6 ft. 2 in.) are home schooled...
...last. You have entered a world in which the clocks stopped in the last minute of 1997. Or perhaps 1957. Of the 12 customers, 10 are smoking, and they can't believe any self-respecting bar patron would observe this kind of government meddling in their lives. Marlon Tolbert, a travel agent, is smoking a hot dog-size Honduran stogie. "My wife won't allow it at home, so where else...
...says Natalie Tolbert, 26, to a friend who has just ordered chicken nuggets, waffle fries, a soft drink and a brownie from an Atlanta fast-food joint. "You're pleasantly plump." More and more Americans are couching their excess in euphemism these days, and they're not necessarily ashamed of it. "Obviously I don't care," says Tolbert, gesturing to her ample figure and equally ample lunch. "I don't care because I find most men I go out with like a woman with some meat on her body...
...officials took hopeful stock of Doe, who had been trained by U.S. special forces. Compared with Tolbert, Doe seemed refreshingly simple; he abandoned the presidential limousine for a Chevette. Officials also worried a lot in those days about the subversive efforts of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. When Doe let it be known that Gaddafi had made overtures, the U.S. hastened to increase its aid, from $19 million in 1979 to $72 million in 1983. The U.S. theory was that Doe could be surrounded by technical experts who would educate him and keep him in line. "He was just a young...