Mississippi

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  • Bush is shocked -- shocked!

    Not far from WorldCom's headquarters, Bush expresses concern at corporate misdeeds. Standing with him were the men that wrote the script for disaster.
  • Samuel Mockbee

    Amid architecture's increasing irrelevance, one man decided that poor people can have great houses.
  • Denial is holding blacks back

    The hanging of a Mississippi teen was found to be a suicide, not a lynching, but black leaders keep fanning the flames of racial paranoia.
  • Has lynch law returned?

    Whether it was murder or suicide, the grim spectacle of a Mississippi teen's death shows that interracial dating is still taboo -- in the minds of blacks as well as whites.
  • "Fay" by Larry Brown

    The heroine of Brown's sixth novel is a Huck Finn navigating the Mississippi lowlife in the body of a 17-year-old femme fatale.
  • Look away, Dixieland

    George W. Bush and Al Gore are coasting in the latest primaries, which are now just formalities.
  • Sinnin' and fornicatin'

    Sex is so much sweeter when the preacher is damning you to Hell.
  • He loves me, he loves me not

    Race was never an issue in my life -- until I fell in love.
  • McCain's ancestors owned slaves

    The senator's family history includes a Civil War era plantation in Mississippi.
  • Away down South in Dixie

    In accent and manner, George W. knows how to play the part when he sweeps through Mississippi, including taking a swipe at Hillary.
  • John Junior in Bluesland

    On a Mississippi afternoon, an old woman recalls the president's son who came to visit.
  • Guns, muskmelon breasts and the Laotian Gandhi

    An American takes a Mark Twain-like journey by riverboat down the Mekong.
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