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...seems to thaw out in her husband's presence, and there is sweetness in their silent campaign interplay. Coming off the campaign plane two weeks ago in Birmingham, Alabama, she grabbed his arm and made him gaze for a moment at the spectacular red sunset on the horizon. At the end of a long day, she kneads his shoulders, rubs his arm in encouragement, shoots him a supportive smile. Dole, the good Midwesterner, is allergic to public displays of affection--except from his Elizabeth. They seem to share a secret code of gestures: Elizabeth pats him on the lower back...
...then, says Richard Diehl, an Olmec expert at the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa, "we know that they had adapted to the environment and probably supplemented their diet with cultivated plants, such as maize and beans. And we know they became more and more dependent on agriculture, perhaps because the population was increasing...
Meanwhile, a court settlement in Alabama softened another get-tough law-enforcement device, the newly revived chain gang. After an Alabama guard shot a prisoner to death during a fight between two men who had been shackled together, authorities agreed to break up the chain, though each prisoner will still wear leg irons. Officials talk of an exodus of California parolees to more forgiving states, but it's doubtful they're moving to Alabama...
...last week--when the Rising Sun Missionary Baptist church in Greensboro, Alabama, and a former sanctuary at Matthews-Murkland Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, were torched--30 black churches in an eight-state arc from Louisiana to Virginia had been burned over the past 18 months. Only a handful of these arson cases have been solved. Such senseless destruction strikes at the soul of congregations. But their anguish deepens when they, the victims, also become suspects...
Harvard came out of the indoor season ranked 33rd in the nation and slowly climbed in the rankings all season. After losing their first match of the season 5-2 to No. 2 UCLA, the Crimson responded with huge back-to-back upsets of No. 9 South Alabama and No. 11 Duke...