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...DIED. CORETTA SCOTT KING, 78, widow of Martin Luther King Jr. and advocate for civil rights; at a hospital in Rosarito Beach, Mexico. After breaking free of rural poverty in Alabama, King met her preacher husband while she was a graduate student at the New England Conservatory of Music. Following the Rev. King's assassination in 1968, she sought to sustain her husband's legacy-largely through the King Center for Non-Violent Social Change, which she founded in Atlanta-while pushing for gender and racial equality under the banner of the civil-rights movement...
...Evgenia Subbotina. Mukundan triumphed in the first set, 6-4, but was down 0-2 in the third set before coming around to prevail, 6-4. With a 3-1 record, Harvard returns to the Murr Center on February 11 and 12 to face No. 30 South Alabama and No. 38 Sacramento State. Freshman Laura Peterzan, who missed the tournament due to injury, will be back in the lineup.—Staff writer Barbara R. Barreno can be reached at barreno@fas.harvard.edu...
...King met in 1952 in Boston where she was studying music at the New England Conservatory, having already studied at Antioch College in Ohio. King had been pursuing a doctorate in philosophy at Boston University. But both of them were originally from the South. She grew up in Alabama, he in Atlanta, and they married the next year, in 1953. They moved together to Montgomery, Alabama where King began his work as a pastor for the Dexter Avenue Church...
...question at the debate was: “Resolved: That the Federal Government should compel the state of Alabama to grant equal educational opportunities to Negroes.” Kennedy’s Winthrop team took the negative side...
...have been displaced by the hurricane.Kessler said that he expected to find differences between the results from the New Orleans survivors—who mostly faced damage because of levee damage—and those from elsewhere in the Gulf Coast. “People in Mississippi and Alabama had an act of nature occur to them, whereas in New Orleans, a lot of people think it’s not an act of nature, it’s an act of bureaucratic inefficiency,” he said. “There’s a lot of people...