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-----A 'Small Wonder' of a Life Brings One Woman the American Dream
Thirty-three years ago, Ruth Ann Minner, the daughter of a sharecropper, was suddenly widowed with three sons to raise. Scrappy and determined, Mrs. Minner's future was to rise to become governor herself.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/04/politics/04DELA.html
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-- Anonymous, January 04, 2001
Good stuff CEEP but nobody reads it. Kudos for posting just in case. What do you think of this Houston dude that's been nominated to head Edu?
-- Anonymous, January 05, 2001
Excellent article, cpr. This woman can teach many sitting (and soon-to-be-sitting) politicians at every level of government a thing or two about real "work" and what it means to hold the trust of the people who elected you.
I read these things, Carlos (as do you, it seems [g]).
-- Anonymous, January 05, 2001
Yea.That's 2.
-- Anonymous, January 06, 2001
OUCH!!! I hurt myself as I feel to the floor in SHOCK from reading Carlos agreeing with Charles!Have I entered an alternative universe or am I still asleep and mearly dreaming this?
-- Anonymous, January 06, 2001