Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Growing up in segregated Birmingham, she recalls hardly knowing that white people existed. Then, in 1963, her friend Denise McNair was killed in the church bombing that helped ignite the civil rights movement. The family moved out of Alabama, eventually relocating to Denver. But living under Jim Crow instilled in Rice an astonishing resilience. "I came out of that not bitter but with a sense of entitlement," she says, "to do whatever I wanted to do, to be whoever I wanted...
Gates and his wife decided to launch the program after Gray took them on a tour of schools and libraries in Alabama. "They saw the needs facing minority students," says Patty Stonesifer, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. "The No. 1 issue time and time again was cost...
...streets. Last spring, the world's eyes were riveted on Littleton, Colo., as two students methodically shot students and a teacher, turning their suburban high school into a brutal and haunting crime scene. In the past few years, equally unrepentant students turned guns on their peers in Oregon and Alabama. And this is to say nothing of the guns used on lovers and rival gangs, against police and innocent bystanders, in every state of the union every day of the year. It is a barrage of gunfire which we have chillingly learned to ignore...
...addition to the sparkling debuts made by Weed, Totman and Gunther last weekend, freshman forward Joey Yenne began the Harvard onslaught with a goal during the Crimson's 7-1 victory over Alabama-Birmingham, and freshman defender Katie Urbanic played a large role in shutting down the UAB offense...
Indeed, the efforts of co-captains Larson and Beth Zotter helped propel the Crimson to victory last weekend. Both had unassisted goals during the Crimson's match against Alabama-Birmingham and helped the freshman players get on their feet with several assists during the weekend...