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...Grammy nominations for Best Album; in Orlando. Francis was inducted into the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in 1993. DIED. TONY MILES, 46, Britain's first chess grand master, who was ranked for a decade among the top 10 in the game; in his sleep, in Birmingham, England. Miles, confident, brassy and aggressive, beat former world champions Mikhail Tal, Boris Spassky and Anatoly Karpov. died. Cornelius Warmerdam, 86, a world record-setting pole vaulter who was named pole vaulter of the century in 2000 by USA Track & Field; in Fresno, California. Warmerdam, a pioneer who competed with primitive bamboo...
Sounds brilliant—except for the fact that the proposal will be surely laughed out of the legislature. Even Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham ’72 and House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, who normally get along like Frosty the Snowman and a tanning bed, are united in their opposition, pointing out that all a tax-free weekend will accomplish is a consolidation of November and December retail activity into one weekend. Dartboard envisions overcrowded stores, fistfights over parking spots and widespread pandemonium. Not to mention the empty malls on the weekend after the tax-free extravaganza...
...fathers of daughters, the challenges are different. "I can't teach her all the frilly things of being a girl," says Brent Ahrens, a Birmingham, Ala., store detective who cares for Malia, 5. But there are compensations. On his days off, Malia wakes him early, and they head off to a lake where a buddy has a boat. "She outfishes us both," he boasts. Deryck Miller, a youth counselor in Eagan, Minn., who has custody of daughter Nashan, 13, wasn't sure how to broach the subject of menstruation. In the end, he says, a Girl Scout manual "gave...
...states with diverse populations: California, Texas, Florida and New York. And not all interracial dating is considered equal. Black-white couples lament that the historic divide between their races is still the hardest to overcome, whether dealing with their parents or their peers. At the Indian Springs school in Birmingham, Ala., recalls Jones, black kids felt it was O.K. to date an Indian, Korean or Latino, but they frowned on dating whites. Asian-white couples have it relatively easy, observes L.E. Hartmann-Ting, 32, a white grad student who lives in Medford, Mass., with her husband Dr. Leon Ting...
...what the Ozzman’s fans have come to expect—aggressive guitar work coupled with periods of keyboard melody, all swirled with the master’s voice, one that remains as haunting and powerful as it was when Black Sabbath emerged from the slums of Birmingham, England over 30 years ago. Zakk Wylde, guitar God responsible for much of the music on Osborne’s last three albums, returns to lend his axe to the effort. While his unique funk/chunk distortion and timbre are evident, the lack of gratuitous pitch harmonic riffing, Wylde?...