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Take Savannah State University, a 173-acre (70 hectare) campus of tawny brick buildings and Spanish-moss-covered oaks that hosts some 3,400 students. Under Harp's proposal, it would keep its name but merge with Armstrong Atlantic State, a majority-white school of about 7,000 down the road. Founded in 1890 as the Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth, Savannah State opened at its current site on a wooded salt marsh in 1891, 70 years before the state's universities were integrated. Its first president, Richard Wright Sr., was born into slavery...
...lost a child or a mate or all they owned, police delivered more chilling news: some of the fires had been deliberately lit. "There's no words to describe it other than it's mass murder," Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said. Rudd spoke too of rebuilding towns "brick by brick, school by school, community hall by community hall." Getting over the heightened fear of nature's fury might take longer...
...Talay is Covo (www.covony.com), a massive warehouse of a joint where the wood-burning ovens deliver around a dozen types of pizzas - from prosciutto crudo to Treviso (radicchio, gorgonzola and walnuts) - and the fresh sea bass is marinated in white wine and oregano before being baked whole in a brick oven...
...minutes south, on Broadway near Columbia University, Campo - "gathering place" in Italian - is living up to its name (www.camponyc.com). New York foodies congregate inside the rust-and-gold dining room (accented by exposed brick and pressed tin on the ceiling) to indulge in chef David Rotter's fresh takes on Italy's greatest hits, including fried risotto balls, monkfish milanese and chicken alla diavolo cooked under a brick...
...crime and punishment. He grew up in the East Elmhurst section of Queens, N.Y.--so populated by cops and firefighters that rush hour looked like the shift change at a station house. A popular teen prank was setting off the red fire-alarm box near his modest brick house on 101st Street. Nearly everyone tried it once, but not Eric, the churchgoing Boy Scout who knew the consequence of disobeying rules: "A good, quick smack on the bottom," his mother Miriam recalls. "If you did something wrong, you're going to have to pay a price...