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Word: alabamas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to No.1 Blake, No. 2 Ryan Sachire of Notre Dame, No. 4 Oliver Freelove of Illinois, No. 6 Francisco Rodriguez of Alabama and No. 10 Ignacio Hirigoyen of Southern Methodist University are vying for the prestigious singles title...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Tennis Tests No. 16 Ranking at Blue-Gray | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

Just as winter begins to let up on Cambridge and the rest of the Northeast, the Harvard men's tennis team has headed south to the Blue-Gray Classic in Montgomery, Alabama...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 16 Tennis Faces Blue-Gray Test | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

Gaither's death has become a rallying point for gay-rights organizations' and state legislators' pushing a bill that would extend Alabama's three-year-old hate-crimes law beyond race, color, religion and national origin to cover crimes related to sexual orientation as well. "It's unfortunate that somebody had to lose his life in order for this legislation to pick up momentum here in the state of Alabama," says state Representative Alvin Holmes, who failed to get the original law amended when it was passed in 1996. Holmes filed for extending the law after Matthew Shepard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Burning in Alabama | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...wake of a rash of hate crimes against gays--BGLTSA Co-Chair Adam A. Sofen '01 cited the October murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard in Wyoming, Alabama resident Billy Jack Gaither's violent death last month after being beaten with an axe handle, and last week's attack on a gay student at Tufts College leaving an off-campus party--Hildebran and Pars-Avila discussed their professional experiences with anti-gay violence...

Author: By Ned B. Colby, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BGLTSA Discusses Recent Violence | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...rights groups are drawing comparisons between the deaths of Billy Jack Gaither, a 39-year-old Alabama man, and that of Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard. It's pretty hard not to. Both gay men, they were brutally slaughtered by young toughs who freely admitted they were motivated by their animosity toward their victim's sexuality. Gaither's killers told police they plotted his killing after the mild-mannered textile worker made a sexual advance. After luring him to secluded boat ramp February 19, the killers bludgeoned him with an ax handle and then put him on a pyre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Gay Hate Killing Raises Troubling Questions | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

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