Word: alabamas
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...have thought now and then about the black Alabama schoolteacher's forgiveness of Wallace. Was she merely gullible, I've wondered, or was something deeper at work? The truth of forgiveness is that its benefits--a healing sweetness--may accrue more to the forgiver than to the forgiven. If blacks could bring themselves to forgive George Wallace, pain-racked in his wheelchair, then was there not, in the forgiveness, a small but real moment of liberation all around...
DIED. GEORGE WALLACE, 79, four-term Alabama Governor, four-time presidential hopeful and political penitent nonpareil who was first elected in 1962 on a platform of segregation forever but later renounced his divisive rhetoric; in Montgomery, Ala. (See NATION...
...Lewinsky says that during three sexual encounters, Clinton was on the phone with Congressmen; during another, he took a call from his disgraced consultant Dick Morris; in each case, phone logs bear out her account. (Lewinsky says she was performing a sex act on Clinton while he spoke to Alabama Representative Sonny Callahan. The lawmaker, aghast, says they were discussing American troops in Bosnia...
...Diego State 35-6 19. West Virginia 0-1 Idle 20. N. Carolina St. 2-0 Beat Florida State 24-7 21. Missouri 2-0 Beat Kansas 41-23 22. Oregon 2-0 Beat UTEP 33-26 23. Notre Dame 1-1 Lost to Michigan St. 45-23 24. Alabama 2-0 Idle 25. Mississippi St. 2-0 Idle
Looked at in this light, 1992's Hurricane Andrew, officially the costliest hurricane on record with damage, in today's dollars, of $35.5 billion, dropped to second place. The first was a Category 4 hurricane (wind speeds above 130 m.p.h.) that struck southeast Florida in 1926 and skipped into Alabama. (It has no name because the custom of naming storms began only in the early '50s.) If that storm took the same path today, it would cause damage totaling $77.5 billion. Of the 10 costliest hurricanes of the century, nine occurred before 1970. The only recent hurricane to make Pielke...