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"And we believe -- well, maybe all but the Unitarians -- that God himself favors our football teams. On Friday nights and Saturday afternoons, our coaches, some of them blasphemers and backsliders and not exactly praying men the other six days of the week, tell their players to hit a knee and ask his favor at the same exact instant the other team is also asking his favor, which I have always taken to mean that God, all things being equal, favors the team with the surest holder on long field goals."
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Another Battle of New Orleans: Mardi Gras
Another Battle of New Orleans: Mardi Gras
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TERROR IN OKLAHOMA CITY: AT GROUND ZERO
TERROR IN OKLAHOMA CITY: AT GROUND ZERO
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A Killer's Only Confidant: The Man Who Caught Susan Smith
A Killer's Only Confidant: The Man Who Caught Susan Smith
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"And we believe -- well, maybe all but the Unitarians -- that God himself favors our football teams. On Friday nights and Saturday afternoons, our coaches, some of them blasphemers and backsliders and not exactly praying men the other six days of the week, tell their players to hit a knee and ask his favor at the same exact instant the other team is also asking his favor, which I have always taken to mean that God, all things being equal, favors the team with the surest holder on long field goals."
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Another Battle of New Orleans: Mardi Gras
Another Battle of New Orleans: Mardi Gras
The little shotgun house is peeling and the Oldsmobile in front is missing a rear bumper, but Larry Bannock can glimpse glory through the eye of his needle. For almost a year he has hunkered over his sewing table, joining beads, velvet, rhinestones, sequins, feathers and ostrich plumes into a Mardi Gras costume that is part African, part Native American.
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TERROR IN OKLAHOMA CITY: AT GROUND ZERO
TERROR IN OKLAHOMA CITY: AT GROUND ZERO
In Shock, Loathing, Denial: 'This Doesn't Happen Here'
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A Killer's Only Confidant: The Man Who Caught Susan Smith
A Killer's Only Confidant: The Man Who Caught Susan Smith
The case of a lifetime is closed for Howard Wells. The reporters and the well-wishers have begun to drift away, leaving the Union County Sheriff at peace. He will try to do a little fishing when the police radio is quiet, or just sit with his wife, Wanda, and talk of anything but the murderer Susan Smith.
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All She Has, $150,000, Is Going to a University
All She Has, $150,000, Is Going to a University
Oseola McCarty spent a lifetime making other people look nice. Day after day, for most of her 87 years, she took in bundles of dirty clothes and made them clean and neat for parties she never attended, weddings to which she was never invited, graduations she never saw.
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Where Alabama Inmates Fade Into Old Age
Where Alabama Inmates Fade Into Old Age
Grant Cooper knows he lives in prison, but there are days when he cannot remember why. His crimes flit in and out of his memory like flies through a hole in a screen door, so that sometimes his mind and conscience are blank and clean.
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