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...trusted to rake the yard without blinding another inmate. The average prisoner workweek is 34.5 hours. Federal inmates put in 37.5 hours--though that is still less than the 48 hours that would be required under a Senate bill sponsored by Republican Richard Shelby of Alabama...
Caller number 10 to Fob James' radio call-in show is upset. a huge cross that stood on state-owned property along a highway in Gulf Shores, Alabama, was taken down under a federal court order, and Caller 10 wants to know how to get permission to put it back up. Now, Fob James has a lawyer right here in the studio to advise on pesky issues like church-state conflict. But James doesn't turn to his lawyer. He just leans into the mike and issues marching orders: "Get your cross, just like the one that was there...
...gaggle of ardent G.O.P. conservatives in state capitals around the country. But James, 60, is more a throwback than a young zealot. He has spent his first seven months in office loading up one discarded policy of the Old South after the other and lobbing them at Alabama's moderates, minorities and, yes, at the federal judiciary. "We are going in the same direction as the rest of the country, but we are more extreme," says Auburn University professor Wayne Flynt...
...effort geared up, the Army was eventually cajoled into establishing one flight-training school for black pilots in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1941. Hundreds of applications flooded in. The blacks who entered the program were a stellar group, with degrees from such top universities as Howard and Northwestern. Their military-aptitude-test scores were so high that white officers suspected cheating and made them take the tests again. Still, only five out of the first 13 trainees survived the rigorous course and the corrosive racism of some white flight instructors. Former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and prominent New York City businessman...
Thirty-two years after he needed the help of the National Guard to get past Governor George Wallace and enroll at the University of Alabama, James Hood, 52, has returned, this time to study for a Ph.D. And to prove he doesn't hold a grudge, Hood plans to ask Wallace--who once pledged to "bar the schoolhouse door" to prevent desegregation--to hand him his diploma, come graduation. Now a dean at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin, Hood says he realized even back then that Wallace's stance was just a gesture. "I respect him as a human...