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Colombia visits Alabama-Birmingham this Friday afternoon and then will stay to face Mississippi State on Sunday at noon...
College Tuition. Janet Tedesco, a high school teacher in Metairie, La., and her husband Ken, a college development officer, arranged a $65,000 line of credit in 1997. They are using it to put two children through school--Kerri, who graduated from Spring Hill College in Alabama in May, and Philip, a sophomore at Notre Dame...
...seems to me that the action this summer by the Kansas state board of education dropping evolution from the science curriculum, the ongoing battles about prayer in the schools--particularly in places like Alabama--and the struggles in many places including Massachusetts is a pretty clear sign that this is a big-time issue in American society at the beginning of the new century...
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...