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...Students have a right of free speech ... but this message is a divisive message.' TOM WITTMER, lawyer for the Alachua County, Florida, school district, on the decision to send several children home for wearing shirts bearing the statement ISLAM IS OF THE DEVIL, which he said violated a ban on clothing that may "disrupt the learning process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...After working as a paramedic and a fire department lieutenant, Fugate went on to serve 10 years as Alachua County's emergency management chief, a position that reportedly came with a basement office that was so tiny Fugate had to dodge the door when unexpected visitors dropped by or risk getting hit in the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FEMA Chief W. Craig Fugate | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

Kreines is also trying to help towns get their share of wireless wealth. He advises officials on how much to charge for space on water tanks and how to find the stealthiest towers--the ones built without a permit. When Florida's Alachua County completed its first antenna inventory in 1999, it uncovered $1.5 million in new tax revenues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Cellular's New Camouflage | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...High court struck down a Tennessee "fleeing felon" law allowing such force, but a federal appeals court the same year said that ruling shouldn't apply once a criminal suspect had been arrested.WITCH-STATE SEPARATION? The Court also nixed a Florida man's suit against the Alachua County school board for allowing his son's elementary school to celebrate Halloween with brooms, cauldrons and teachers dressed up as witches. The father, Robert Guyer, argued that using Halloween symbols violated the constitutionally-required separation of church and state. His reasoning: brooms, etc., are like symbols of Wicca, a variety of witchcraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT . . . "DEADLY FORCE" RULE STANDS | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...your life. Anything can happen. You must clear your mind from all problems, even from your family." Tony Lush, 33, whose 54-ft. ketch Lady Pepperell is sponsored by the textile-manufacturing company, has taken a leave from his job as chief of laboratory testing at Hunter Marine of Alachua, Fla. Tom Lindholm, 57, of Hidden Hills, Calif., has left his law practice in the hands of his partner and son to take the helm of his 41-ft. sloop Driftwood. Dan Byrne, 53, of Santa Monica, Calif., is relying on his wife Patricia to provide shore support; she intends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Around the World Singlehanded | 9/6/1982 | See Source »

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