Word: alabamas
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...human characters. But since they regard the entire book as the saga of God putting humanity on trial rather than the reverse, these imperfections will not challenge faith. Nor would they have perturbed the work's original audience, maintains Southern Baptist professor Kenneth Mathews, an Old Testament scholar at Alabama's Samford University who has just published his own commentary, Genesis 1-11. "Moses' Israel would come to read the opening chapters through their eyes of faith and experience," he says. "If one is disinclined to surrender to God, one is inclined to read the text in the light...
HONORED. VIVIAN MALONE JONES, 54, as the first recipient of the Lurleen B. Wallace Award of Courage, named for the late wife of former Alabama Governor George Wallace; in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1963, Governor Wallace stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama auditorium in a symbolic and unsuccessful attempt to prevent the young Malone and another black student from registering for classes...
...played good cop-bad cop. Agnew created his role as a menacing though semisatirical rabble-rouser of the much-maligned love-it-or-leave-it Silent Majority of Americans who wished, against their mounting disquiet, to believe in their government's war. The struggle defined itself in cultural conflict. Alabama's Governor George Wallace had gone national as an angry outsider-populist and blue-collar backlasher. Agnew became a kind of insider Establishment populist, attacking "elites," meaning the media and intellectuals emerging as the liberal-minded new class of the information age. With the help of White House speechwriters...
...RILEY Republican--Alabama 3rd A staunch conservative backed by Gingrich, Riley pulled off a 4-point victory by calling his opponent "too liberal for Alabama...
JEFF SESSIONS Republican--Alabama His contest with State Senator Roger Bedford, who closely matched him in fund raising, was closer than expected. Some complained, though, that the issues were neglected...