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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Southern Baptists would have it, the road to hell goes straight through Alabama. The Southern Baptists Convention estimated in a detailed county-by- county chart that 46.1% of people in the state are not born again and so risk not reaching heaven. Some Alabamians consigned to the flames were angered by the news. Said Martin King of the Home Mission Board, which compiled the study: "All we know is that as we understand the doctrine of salvation, a lot of people are lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Digest September 12-18 | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...that he wasn't Ivy League material (or at least that there were other students more suited for admission than he was), Stonecypher blamed a flaw in admissions policies. After all, how could these schools reject Mark Stonecypher, salutatorian of his class at John Carroll High School in Birmingham, Alabama...

Author: By Jordan Schreiber, | Title: Stonecypher's Suit of Sour Grapes | 9/17/1993 | See Source »

Vaughn says there are "not many Blackapplicants" from Alabama and estimates about 10percent of interviewees each year are Black. Thereare efforts by visiting undergraduates andadmissions officers to recruit the few Blackstudents in the area, but that minority status hasno bearing on a candidate's evaluation, Vaughnsays...

Author: By Melissa Lee, | Title: White Applicant Says Black Admit Favored | 9/17/1993 | See Source »

Vaughn says that there are "not many Blackapplicants" from Alabama and estimates about 10percent of interviewees each year are Black. Thereare efforts by visiting undergraduates andadmissions officers to recruit the few Blackstudents in the area, but that minority status hasno bearing on a candidate's evaluation, Vaughnsays...

Author: By Melissa Lee, | Title: White Applicant Says Black Admit Favored | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

Only the most desperate scavengers would trawl for a story line in this swamp of sensation, but here goes. Clarence (Christian Slater) works in a Detroit comic-book store. It's his birthday, and as a present his boss has bought him a surprise call girl, Alabama (Patricia Arquette). She may vaguely aspire to be Melanie Griffith, and if Clarence hopes to travel abroad, it is only because he "always wanted to see what TV in other countries looked like"; but this is true romance. The two must marry, run into some mortal trouble (Gary Oldman as a drug dealer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goons Go Gun Crazy | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

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