Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moving toward the Senate floor. Bush gets a bye on the first test: though he is opposed to sanctions, Congress in 1986 prohibited lifting the bans on trade until South Africa takes specific steps to dismantle apartheid. Bush reminded everyone of that three times at a press conference in Alabama last week...
...first U.S. school to try the system was Alabama's Sumiton Elementary. "One of the first things our teachers noticed," says vice principal Ilene Black, "was the change in attitude of the students. The parents are very positive; they love the fact that their children like it; they don't have to make them do their homework." John Aston, headmaster at the Undercroft Montessori School in Tulsa marvels that "some of our students are already performing at a masterful level" after less than one year...
Professor Bell cast his die last week, but the river he crossed was not the Rubicon, it was the Alabama. Last week Derrick Bell crossed over the Edmund J. Pettus bridge, and he crossed if heading back to Selma. He crossed it into Selma because he denied Blacks full freedom of intellectual development and because he accepted racial and gender divisions as the natural order of things...
...Alabama Democrat tried to undercut the EPA's power to enforce the Clean Air Act, but now he touts his environmental efforts and plans an Earth Day photo op at the state's Cahaba River cleanup...
...bishops' critique was the work of a six-member committee headed by Alabama's Archbishop Oscar Lipscomb, 58, the chairman of the bishops' doctrinal committee. (Individual U.S. bishops, like those elsewhere, will also be sending separate responses to the Vatican.) The Lipscomb panel's chief objection is that the Catechism has not clearly distinguished a "hierarchy of truths" treating concepts like the meaning of Christ's crucifixion as more important than, say, teaching about angels...