Word: tulsa
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...Paula Marshall-Chapman, 47, CEO of the Bama Companies, a $140 million Tulsa, Okla., frozen-dough-and-pie concern that started in her grandmother's kitchen in 1927, the road to success has been studded with familial potholes. When Marshall-Chapman took over from her father in 1984, her two brothers were furious that they would not be involved in running the show. The business was changed from a corporation to a partnership, with Marshall-Chapman named general partner. Her parents Lilah and Paul Marshall took their equity out of the business to live on. The structure of the general...
...political question is which side will claim the most swing voters--that is, the most women whose votes are available to candidates of either party. Nancy Inhofe, a Tulsa, Okla., emergency-room pediatrician and mother of two, was reared as a conservative Republican and is a daughter-in-law of Oklahoma's Republican Senator James Inhofe. But Nancy, a local coordinator for the Million Mom March, describes herself as an independent voter and says the march defies political distinctions. "It doesn't matter what side you're on politically," she says. "Personal experience has prompted me and people like...
...remains the purest of sporting events and by far the most fun. And you know what? To hell with my picks. Tulsa all the way. Why stop at partial insanity...
Kenyon Martin: This Cincinnati basketball player gets the award for Unluckiest Player Ever. A consensus All-American, Martin injured himself the week before the beginning of the tournament, costing his team the No. 1 seed. Cincinnati then lost to Tulsa in the second round. That means the evil Duke has the best chance of advancing to the finals. Coincidence? I think...
...February, Black History Month. History lives - in sometimes ugly ways. A few days ago in Oklahoma, a state commission recommended that some $12 million in reparations should be paid to survivors of the Tulsa race riot, which occurred 79 years ago, in late May, early June 1921. The riot, which may have been the bloodiest in American history, left as many as 300 black people dead. An armed white mob, inflamed by rumors that a black man had raped a white woman, looted and burned the thriving black community of Greenwood to the ground, destroying some 1,200 structures...