Word: virginia
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Hobie McNatt, the protagonist of John Sayies good and sometimes brilliant second novel, is a runner. Literally, he is a flanker on the football team of his small high school in southern West Virginia coal country. Hobie has speed to burn. Folks remember him as not as strong and bullish as his brother Darwin McNatt, whose fatigue jacket he always wears--Darwin, the boy who hung up his pads to join the army, and came back from Nam a little wacky. But when Hobie is cutting and stepping on the gridiron people scratch their heads and wonder when...
...Radcliffe finalists are: Andrea L. Davis, Karen Fifer, Joy Kahlenberg, Nancy B. Levin, Diane P. McLean, Margarita M. Montoto, Virginia Anne Muller and Phyllis Yale...
...James Cramer, 31, who claimed Virginia Commonwealth University refused to consider a white male for a teaching job. A federal judge ruled in his favor...
From the questions it was clear that the Justices were struggling to adapt the most perplexing social questions into a manageable legal framework. They were obviously not comfortable. Justice Lewis Powell, normally the most courteous of Virginia gentlemen, uncharacteristically attacked Colvin: "We are here primarily to hear a constitutional argument," he said softly. "You have devoted 20 minutes to belaboring the facts, if I may say so. I would like help, I really would, on the constitutional issues...
...VIRGINIA ANNE MULLER...