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Professor Bell cast his die last week, but the river he crossed was not the Rubicon, it was the Alabama. Last week Derrick Bell crossed over the Edmund J. Pettus bridge, and he crossed if heading back to Selma. He crossed it into Selma because he denied Blacks full freedom of intellectual development and because he accepted racial and gender divisions as the natural order of things...
...Alabama Democrat tried to undercut the EPA's power to enforce the Clean Air Act, but now he touts his environmental efforts and plans an Earth Day photo op at the state's Cahaba River cleanup...
...bishops' critique was the work of a six-member committee headed by Alabama's Archbishop Oscar Lipscomb, 58, the chairman of the bishops' doctrinal committee. (Individual U.S. bishops, like those elsewhere, will also be sending separate responses to the Vatican.) The Lipscomb panel's chief objection is that the Catechism has not clearly distinguished a "hierarchy of truths" treating concepts like the meaning of Christ's crucifixion as more important than, say, teaching about angels...
...Month's offerings encompass visual art, theater, music and poetry readings. The events and displays are ecclectic, featuring everything from a hand-printed and bound book of an Alabama folk song to a recital of Nietzsche's musical compositions...
...concern for waterlogged residents: a flotilla of water moccasins in the flood tides. "Snakes are trying to find a dry piece of ground, just like everyone else," said Greg McWhorter of Alabama's emergency-management agency. "They'll settle up in the top part of your closet. We're warning people to be on the alert...