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...Bethesda, Md. Smith, who in 1960 moderated the first-ever televised presidential debate (between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon), believed that journalists should take stands on some issues. He left CBS when CEO William Paley barred him from punctuating a 1961 documentary on racism in Birmingham, Ala., with the Edmund Burke quote "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing...
...Focus on just one moment. It is dusk when, at the top of the bobseld run, Jill Bakken and her push partner Vonetta Flowers, a 24-year-old from Birmingham who had once wanted to be an Olympic track star, toe the line for their final run. Bakken stares toward the first, floodlit turn for a long minute - visualizing, focusing. Then she and Flowers pump their fists, pump up the volume, leap into their sled...
Environmental activists filled the room as Thomas F. Birmingham ’72, Steve Grossman, Shannon P. O’Brien, Robert B. Reich, and Warren E. Tolman spoke out about their views on urban environmental policies and the failures of the current administration...
...Brien, currently state treasurer, labeled herself “the environmental treasurer.” And Birmingham, president of the state senate, said, “I’m not going to take a backseat to anybody...
...Birmingham called for balancing the needs of economic growth with environmental safeguards...