Word: alabama
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LOUISVILLE, Ky.--Guards Billy Donovan and Delray Brooks bombarded ninth-ranked Alabama with five 3-point field goals apiece as Providence rolled to a 103-82 upset in the NCAA Southeast Regional semifinals last night...
Donovan, finishing with 26 points, assaulted various Alabama defenses by hitting all five of his 3-point tries in the first half in leading the Big East Conference Friars to a 49-41 lead...
...Alabama, closing 28-5, lost for the third straight year in the regional semifinals...
...such matters as teenage sex and divorce. The result is a temporal outlook that critics, particularly Christian Fundamentalists, contend has become a creed of its own, secular humanism. Last week U.S. District Judge W. Brevard Hand, who has previously indicated his sympathy for such arguments, banned 45 textbooks from Alabama public schools because they unconstitutionally promote "the religion of secular humanism...
...case grew indirectly out of a 1982 suit in which Hand upheld two Alabama laws promoting prayers in public schools. When his ruling was reversed on appeal, an undaunted Hand accommodatingly allowed a group of parents and teachers who had intervened as defendants in the prayer dispute to proceed as plaintiffs in the textbook suit, advancing claims they had first raised in the earlier case. His ruling last week prompted hosannas from the religious right. "Humanism will no longer be guaranteed a preferred position in American education," exulted Robert Skolrood, executive director of the National Legal Foundation, a group established...