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...midst of a series of angry statements directed to State Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham '72 and Speaker of the House Thomas M. Finneran, the governor's confrontational and vague call for the testing of math teachers in order to improve students' MCAS scores particularly emphasized Cellucci's reluctance to work towards intelligent compromise with his Democratic opponents...
...Phoenix 2. Salt Lake City 3. Atlanta 4. Raleigh-Durham 5. Indianapolis 6. Washington 7. Memphis 8. Orlando 9. Dallas-Ft. Worth 10. Nashville 11. Denver 12. Louisville 13. Minneapolis 14. Charlotte, N.C. 15. Grand Rapids 16. Birmingham 17. San Diego 18. Houston...
...make salt, Lenin at the Finland Station. Others by refusing to depart: Rosa Parks from her seat on the bus, that kid from the path of the tank near Tiananmen Square. There were magical folks who could make freedom radiate through the walls of a Birmingham jail, a South African prison or a Gdansk shipyard...
...uncompromisingly moral, earnest rather than devious, she became an icon of feminism and social justice in a nation just discovering the need to grant rights to women, blacks, ordinary workers and the poor. She discovered the depth of racial discrimination while touring New Deal programs (on a visit to Birmingham in 1938, she refused to sit in the white section of the auditorium), and subsequently peppered her husband with questions over dinner and memos at bedtime. Even after her husband's death, she remained one of the century's most powerful advocates for social fairness...
...same shade as Suha's. But Hillary has not been a natural blond since she was a child. Maybe the two women even use the same commercial shade! Let's forget the size, colors and looks of people and speak of their ability to do their job. SAHRA COXE Birmingham...