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WHAT LOS ANGELES ATTORNEY MICKEY WHEATLEY HATES IN A garden is the big showy blooms that most everyone else loves. So three years ago, right after buying his first house, he set out to uproot the prize roses the previous owners had planted. While neighbors looked on in horror, he tore out the camellias too. In their place he put California poppies, fragrant sage and drought-tolerant manzanita. "Where everything is lush and green, maybe it's appropriate to grow roses," explains Wheatley. "But here it just doesn't feel right. For me it's almost a spiritual thing...
...decade ago, gardeners like Wheatley would have been considered eccentric, if not downright demented. These days they fit right in with the preserve-the- planet crowd and give a new meaning to the term green thumb. The goal of the back-to-natives style of gardening is to blend the landscapes of private homes into the natural world around them. Why should Texans plant daffodils and tulips when native bluebonnets and prairie paintbrushes create such glorious displays? Why should Southern Californians, who are trying to reduce water consumption, plant thirsty impatiens rather than the vivid wildflowers that decorate nearby hillsides...
...point is that Powell is not just a famous Black leader. He is a "first," just like Thurgood Marshall or Jackie Robinson or Phyllis Wheatley. He is not important for what he represents simply to Black Americans but what he represents to all Americans...
...Among the people I like to think of as useful role models are author- educator W.E.B. Dubois, civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell, Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka, South African leader Nelson Mandela, novelist Toni Morrison. And poet Phillis Wheatley: she was a genius. She learned English when she was about seven, and by the age of 15 she was publishing poems as sophisticated as any American who was publishing in the 18th century. We need to make that common knowledge, as common as the fact that Michael Jordan can do the triple quadruple backward dunk...
According to NBC sources, Brokaw was not even consulted before news president Michael Gartner replaced veteran Nightly News executive producer Bill Wheatley about a month ago with Friedman, a volatile former executive producer of Today. But because Brokaw and Pauley have been close friends since * working together on Today, he is to all appearances comfortable with her assignment, at least as long as she remains sub-anchor. "Read my lips: nothing has changed," says Brokaw. "There will be internal restructuring, but we will still be covering the news. Jane will liberate me, in a way." Brokaw points out, however, that...