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...never had a hearing-impaired president -- the result, say students and staff, of paternalistic attitudes by a hearing world that perpetuates the myth that deaf people cannot function on their own. Comparing today's demands by deaf people with the black civil rights struggle in Alabama 23 years ago, Gallaudet Graduate Student Kathy Karcher declared, "This is the Selma of the deaf...
...other Republicans, most notably Howard Baker, realize that the way to stay the darlings of the inside-the-beltway elite is to let someone else make pitches on behalf of George Bush in Alabama and kansas. Why should Baker run for the White House when he's already there...
When 20 states--including 14 Southern and border states--go to the polls Tuesday, thousands of Americans will take a part in an experiment in regional power politics. From Washington state to Birmingham, Alabama and Key West, Florida, candidates must disseminate their messages, carefully targeted to appeal to this predominantly Southern audience. But the experiment has gone awry...
...Michael Dukakis: Massachusetts. Can a Northeast liberal sell in Birmingham, Alabama? Like Gephardt, he too has great momentum building for Super Tuesday. And unlike Gephardt he has a strong financial base. But, in the next 19 days he must capitalize on his standing in the polls. Strong showings--if not victories--in next week's Minnesota, South Dakota, and South Carolina primaries are essential...
More than a century after the Civil War, the rebel battle flag still waves -- beneath the Stars and Stripes -- at Alabama's state capitol in Montgomery. For black Alabamans, however, that bit of pre-emancipation nostalgia is not an endearing sight. Last week, Representative Thomas Reed led 13 other black legislators in an attempt to scale the capitol dome and strike the rebel colors. Before a crowd of 2,000, some shouting "Nigger go home!," state troopers arrested the group for trespass. Later, the Alabama house, voting 67 to 17 along racial lines, defeated a measure to remove the flag...