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...complaint, a copy of which was obtained by The Crimson under the Freedom of Information Act, was filed in April 1993 by the parent of a white male student from Birmingham, Alabama who was denied admission to Harvard that month...
Tucker, 50 years old, blustery and heavyset, mans the front lines of America's abortion wars. In his Cadillac, usually littered with fast-food wrappers, he travels hundreds of miles each week back and forth across Mississippi and Alabama from one to another of three of the abortion clinics he owns. In a typical year he will perform nearly 7,000 abortions and will make about $200,000. Protesters jam his car's locks with Super Glue, dive under his tires, trail him across the South, phone in bomb threats and even distribute a wanted poster with his picture...
...become a coequal -- and sometimes competitive -- path of inquiry. For some reason it has attracted more than its share of amateurs. In the early 1970s, "discoveries came at the pace of a raging prairie fire," writes Coe in his latest book, Breaking the Maya Code. Former University of South Alabama art teacher Linda Schele burst into the epigraphical world. On a 1970 visit to Mexico, she was mesmerized by the ruins at Palenque. Three years later, she was accomplished enough to collaborate with two others in a mind-boggling feat of decipherment: during a conference at modern Palenque, the trio...
...your country. God forgive me." In Salem, Oregon, in September 1992, three members of the American Front group fire bombed the apartment of a black lesbian named Hattie Cohens and her roommate, a gay white man named Brian Mock, killing both. And a few months earlier in Birmingham, Alabama, three young skins awakened a homeless black man named Benny Rembert and knifed him to death. It was the killers' idea of celebration; they had been drinking in honor of Hitler's birthday. Says Sergeant W.D. McAnally of the Birmingham police department, who helped arrest several local skins: "Hell, the Klan...
...recruited successfully among skinhead groups in the West and Midwest. Too successfully, perhaps. On the last night of a visit by a WAR lieutenant, three Portland, Oregon, skins beat an Ethiopian student named Mulugeta Seraw to death. The case drew national attention, and the Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama successfully sued Metzger, winning $12.5 million in damages for Seraw's family...