Word: carolina
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...convincing evidence" that race is not a factor in any death sentence. Since 1976, not a single white killer has been sentenced to death for the murder of any black victim, while 33 blacks have been executed for killing whites. Opponents of Kennedy's amendment, led by South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, say it would outlaw the death penalty altogether, since it would force prosecutors to develop race-based evidence to prove they were not discriminating. "This would allow vicious killers to get off by talking about race," says Thurmond...
With the communist world changing so rapidly, what's a sixth-grade social- studies student in North Carolina to do? After events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall outpaced many questions on a statewide current-events test, officials decided it would be too expensive to update it. Instead they admonished students: "Do not think about the recent governmental changes that have occurred in the past few months when you choose your answers to the questions about Eastern Europe...
...waking up to the fact that the preservation and care of the land, air and water may rise and dominate all other issues. It links hearts and minds across continents, obliterates old barriers that kept people apart, banishes ideology. Eighty- seven-year-old Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina turned a deaf ear for years, but now he has listed the improvement of the environment as one of his top goals before he is called up yonder. The environmental political flood is about to break over...
Arkansas 96, North Carolina...
...possibility entirely. + "You never want to play Princeton -- never," he has said. After Princeton scared the bejabbers out of mighty Michigan State, losing earlier this season by two points, Jud Heathcote sang the same tune. "We don't want to play them anymore." Jim Valvano, the coach at North Carolina State, says playing a Carril team is like going to the dentist: very painful. Carril accepts the backhanded compliments as reluctant praise, although he says, "These guys must study one-liners at night...