Word: birmingham
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...order to earn her place as the Democratic candidate on Tuesday’s ballot, she defeated three other Democrats—former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich, State Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham ’72 and former state legislator Warren E. Tolman—in the Sept. 17 primary...
...force behind Ek Pal (Hindi for One Moment) is Karamjeet Ballagan, a 41-year-old ethnic Indian health worker in Birmingham, home to a big South Asian population. When Ballagan alerted community leaders that the HIV rate?though still small?was rising among South Asians and that people needed to be educated about sex and drugs, she ran into a wall of opposition. Culturally conservative and religiously orthodox, they refused to acknowledge the problem. "They thought I was imposing Western values and encouraging young people to have sex," says Ballagan. "But I wanted them to face reality...
...Ballagan felt that a Bollywood film would be the most effective way to air the subject of sexual health. So she pried $30,000 out of the National Health Service, convinced a prominent Birmingham writer, Rod Dungate, to develop a script, and flew to Bombay. There she roped in producer and director Gautam Verma, known for not shying away from controversial topics. He, in turn, persuaded several top soap stars to take part. "You could see a bit of fear on their faces," recalls Ballagan. "They were wondering if they would ruin their reputations acting in an AIDS movie...
Richard E. Arrington Jr., former mayor of Birmingham, Ala., and Hubert E. Sapp '67, who worked with Monro at Miles College, described him as an administrator who involved himself in the lives of his students...
...little party.” Though he knew all of the little-turned-big party’s hosts, he certainly did not know all of the motley crew that poured in the suite’s door. Tillery did know one guest: the flamboyantly decked-out Erica S. Birmingham ’06, daughter of Thomas F. Birmingham ’72, who finished third in last month’s Massachusetts Democratic gubernatorial primary. Birmingham, who attended Exeter with Tillery and who is now sporting a flashy pink scarf that frames her impressive cleavage, stopped by the room...