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...high school, however, they arrive on college campuses expecting the social environment to accommodate their sexual orientation. There are now perhaps two dozen gay fraternities around the country--with half of them springing up in just the past five years--at schools such as the University of South Alabama and Kent State University...
...tunnels have been used for more than just food and steam—moving important guests when the need has arisen. In 1968 Alabama Governor George C. Wallace escaped an angry crowd outside Sanders Theater by escaping through the tunnels. Henry A. Kissinger avoided anti-war protestors by leaving through the tunnels after a Vietnam-era speech...
Although More said she has already been admitted to colleges “that don’t even know what the MCAS is,” including Alabama State University and Johnson &Wales University, she said she worries about her peers, some of whom have pledged to drop out of school...
...only a few hundred thousand cable viewers tune in to HDTV, it's a risky bet. But it's the kind that Hendricks has always relished making. A laid-back, soft-spoken Southerner who first became interested in documentaries when ordering them for his professors at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, Hendricks "is a schoolteacher at heart," says John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, a principal shareholder of Discovery, along with Cox Communications and Advance/Newhouse Communications. "Like Ted Turner," Malone says, "Hendricks has a childlike enthusiasm about new ideas that is infectious." (His latest passions include the Women...
...songs, the best of which are a continuation of the weary romantic journey Reed has been on since his Velvet Underground days. None are verse-chorus-verse accessible, but Perfect Day and the fiery duet I Wanna Know (The Pit and the Pendulum), with the Blind Boys of Alabama, prove that Reed is still attuned to the knocking on his own chamber door. "One thinks of what one hopes to be," he sings mournfully, "and then faces reality." --By Josh Tyrangiel