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They started dating but were reluctant to get serious because Hillary wanted a big-city law practice while he ached to get back to watermelon country. But soon they were doing everything together, arguing as lead attorneys in a mock trial (they lost) and working in George McGovern's campaign in Texas (they lost again). After graduation they briefly went their separate ways -- he to Arkansas to teach and run for Congress, she to Cambridge, Mass., to begin work at the Children's Defense Fund (she is now chairwoman of its board) and then to Washington to work...
...Kalashnikov in his lap, a Syrian soldier sits on a lawn chair in front of the monumental staircase leading into the ruins. The soldier smokes cigarettes, chews watermelon seeds, and jokes with the Syrian plainclothesmen who, like him, are there to keep peace...
...rhetoric. In the primary battle between black former Federal Judge Alcee Hastings and ex-Ku Klux Klan leader John Paul Rogers to be Florida's secretary of state, Hastings got a laugh last month by quipping, "If ((Rogers)) doesn't burn crosses in my neighborhood, I won't spit watermelon seeds in his." If Rogers had made the vow in reverse, he would have been accused of bigotry...
...catalog offers stylish variations on some familiar themes in American sportswear. Besides selling a garden-variety pocket T shirt ($12), J. Crew offers a prewashed (or "weathered," as the catalog puts it) T shirt for $24 in 15 different colors, including watermelon, tangelo and mango. Other characteristic items: Shaker cotton sweaters ($38) and unlined canvas jackets ($68). This year J. Crew is branching into clothes for the office as well. Fall offerings will include a wool V-neck dress ($128) and a men's herringbone-tweed jacket (about...
Twelve years ago, Bonnie Garland, a pretty, upper-class Yale student, was murdered. Her estranged boyfriend went up to her bedroom one night and with a hammer cracked her head open "like a watermelon," as he put it. Murders are a dime a dozen in America. But the real story here, the real horror, chronicled in painful detail by Willard Gaylin (in The Killing of Bonnie Garland), was the aftermath: sympathy turned immediately from victim to murderer, a Mexican American recruited to Yale from the Los Angeles barrio. Within five weeks he was free on bail, living with the Christian...