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...Sigma sorority of Blooms-burg University was suspended, pending investigation for possible hazing violations after a pledge sister had to be hospitalized for alcohol poisoning. The pledge had "chugged" about a half bottle of vodka through a funnel type device, according to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education...
...place for the softheaded or tenderfooted. Walk into one of those happy-hour joints on Connecticut Avenue any weekday after 5 p.m., when the Piedmont winds are racing through the marshes and lobbyists have dispersed their Benjamin Franklins to the elected officials who call this marbled burg home, and you're likely to have to face off some Pellegrino-bloated Republican freshperson, waving an assault weapon or, worse, a bill to bring those hand cannons back to every suburbanite with a dandelion-free lawn to defend. Which is when you have to talk fast or else prepare to exit feet...
...reaction was intense and furious, as people sadly removed the yellow ribbons outside their homes and replaced them with black ones. "She's slime, just slime," said a woman at the Greenville/Spartan burg Airport upon hearing the news. All through the area and around the country, people asked again and again: Why did she have to go and kill them? "How does someone do what she , did and then think they can get away with it?" asked Kathy Richardson, whose daughter worked with Smith at Conso. "I would have taken those babies in a heartbeat...
...plane threads through the grand, jagged peaks of the Wind River Range in Wyoming and on to the wild and isolated northeastern corner of Yellowstone National Park. Gordon stands the Cessna on one wing, circling a few hundred feet above Cooke City, Montana, a drowsy, ragtag little mountain burg that is a summer gateway to the park...
Determined to integrate a defiantly all-white housing project in a mostly white Texas burg, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros ordered the federal seizure of Vidor Village, a public housing facility in the town of Vidor, and fired the heads of the local housing authority. Under court order to desegregate, the facility accepted nine black residents last spring, but all have left because of racial harassment. Cisneros, once mayor of San Antonio, Texas, promised that 10 to 12 new black families will soon arrive in Vidor...