Word: alabamas
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Bush and Clinton returned to New Orleans together earlier this month, handing out $90 million in reconstruction funds to local colleges and universities; block grants to the Governors of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama; and at the suggestion of Bush 43, funds to help reopen churches and faith-based institutions. They created a bipartisan board to oversee the Katrina donations and vowed to put out a report later this month explaining how they spent their tsunami funds. (One project: buying new fiber-glass boats for fishermen who lost their vessels in the storm.) There's talk of a Clinton visit...
...team’s unfortunate jumpsuit brigade. “NO CONFIDENCE” At 2-4, the Crimson has not reached the heights that observers expected its talent would take it. More puzzling is the fact that the team has played extremely well in two dominant wins against Alabama State and Rhode Island, and in a six-point loss at UVA last weekend. “I have no idea,” Delaney-Smith said. “I am very, very disappointed in the fluctuating personality of this team. It shouldn’t be this...
...Smith turned out to be quite the prognosticator: in four games, Robinson is averaging 11.3 points per game—six higher than her clip in 2004-2005—and is shooting a blistering 67 percent from the three-point line. In a 69-56 win over Alabama State at the DePaul Invitational, Robinson notched a career high 18 points on 6-of-11 shooting. Eight days later, she matched that effort with 18 more in the Crimson’s 71-58 loss to Fairfield. Robinson has been the undeniable—and perhaps unanticipated, at least...
...cause and is now turning its focus in from the border, staging Operation Spotlight protests not only in Phoenix but also in the California cities of Laguna Beach, Lake Forest and San Bernardino as well as Herndon, Va. There are plans for demonstrations at day-labor centers in Alabama, New York and Tennessee...
...Elite” (Nov. 18, news). I am here at Harvard largely because of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative. However, unlike the girl from Oklahoma who rejected Harvard in favor of a state university, I don’t want to be a housewife. And although I come from Alabama, a state “where not very many students come to Harvard,” I usually don’t refer to people who live in New England as “a bunch of elitist northern Yankees,” as Dean of Admissions and Financial...