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...their path to acceptance was eased immeasurably by radio pioneer Laura Ellen Hopper. In 1975 Hopper co-founded the cultish, eclectic, now defunct California station KFAT, still widely revered for its rejection of the conservative country establishment and its support of quirky artists from John Prine to Jerry Jeff Walker. Those and newer stars like Iris DeMent got a bigger push at her more successful second home, KPIG, where as founder and program director she promoted and popularized the alternative country sound of Americana. She was 57 and had lung cancer...
...Association (SWA) have been doing a brisk trade in bitter remarks, each charging the other with unfairly blocking its exports. Hardly the spirit, given that "scotch whisky is enjoying its best growth prospects for a generation," according to Alberto Gavazzi, global brands director for Diageo, the producer of Johnnie Walker...
...illegal immigrants today compare to the "huddled masses" of the early 20th Century? -Brian Walker, Kansas City, Mo.They are coming today to a different country. Back then, you worked or you starved. Today, of course, we operate as a welfare state in many ways. It's also a very different world in which we live, one where it's too dangerous to just let anybody...
Under a blazing North Carolina sun, faith and power renewed their vows, as three former commanders in chief - Jimmy Carter, George Herbert Walker Bush and Bill Clinton - convened in Charlotte, N.C., to pay tribute to a man they all love...
...Zoellick is widely regarded as brilliant, extremely hard-working, frequently difficult to work with and keenly interested in politics. He started in the Reagan era as a prot?g? of Jim Baker's at the Treasury Department and followed Baker to the State Department during the presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush. During those four years, Zoellick was a behind-the-scenes architect for the reunification of Germany, the expansion of NATO and many of the complex negotiations that attended the end of the Cold...