Word: alas
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...Association, the person who had worked to improve race relations on my campus and who had addressed incidents of racial harassment of others to the administration. Then I looked at this within the "Big Picture." That picture contained the recently dedicated memorial to slain civil rights activists in Montgomery, Ala.; and, closer to home, it consisted of the upcoming A.W.A.R.E. Week, which lasts from Dec. 4 to Dec. 8. Lastly, that "Big Picture" included me. Twenty years or so ago, the Civil Rights Movement ended, leaving a legacy of increased opportunity and legal justice for the millions of African-Americans...
...death toll was even higher in Huntsville, Ala. There too a school was struck by a tornado. Yet, although it was leveled, the timing -- about 4:30 p.m. -- was fortunate, since most of the children had left. But the twister that roared through the city killed 18, ranging in age from 2 to 67, and demolished 119 houses. "It just started shaking and tearing at everything it could get hold of," said real estate broker Ike Carroll. Jeweler Robert Husman, buried under debris in his demolished store, squirmed to the surface. "I came up looking at the taillights...
...shut America out of the emerging European order. -- The House swaps a pay hike for an honorarium ban, but the Senate passes on the bucks. -- As the S & L scandal spreads, the spotlight turns on the federal regulator who let the looting continue. -- Tornadoes strike 14 states, devastating Huntsville, Ala., and a New York school...
There is no more fitting place than Montgomery, Ala., site of the epic 1955-56 black boycott to desegregate the bus system, to memorialize the nation's decades-long struggle for civil rights. Last week 5,000 black and white Americans gathered there to dedicate a black granite sculpture engraved with the names of 40 particularly unforgettable men, women and children -- an honor roll representing the untold numbers of people who have died in violent racial confrontations...
...chronology of major civil rights events, and over this flows a thin sheen of water, a symbol of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "mighty stream" of righteousness. Said Karen Reeb, daughter of a white Unitarian minister who was beaten to death after he marched with King in Selma, Ala.: "It just eases the emptiness in my heart...