Word: cobb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gullatte punched one of the white kids in the face. That earned Gullatte an in-school suspension. Worse, nobody believed him when he explained why he had lashed out. "They kept saying the kid would not say something like that, that stuff like that doesn't happen in the Cobb County public schools," says Gullatte. "But people don't know what really goes...
Some youngsters are trying to reach beyond the silence. After Gullatte had his fight with skinheads in his school, he felt he had no one to talk to. He has since joined Group X, a program started in the Cobb County school system in 1993 in which students meet on a semiregular basis and discuss race. Some 450 students are signed up. The meetings, held in groups of about 20, can get emotional. At a recent session, Alison Garcia, 12, stood up, tears in her eyes, and exclaimed, "All Hispanics are not dumb! You don't know me. My father...
...Party (P.R.D.), people should look at his record while he was governor of the state of Michoacan and belonged to the long-ruling authoritarian Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.). The younger generation in Mexico had better examine this old "dinosaur" carefully. He is a castoff, passed over and recycled. JAY COBB Eaton, Ohio...
...used to envy Grantland Rice. Part of my jealousy had to do with the desire to write phrases like "Outlined against the blue-gray October sky..." But what I really coveted was the athletes Rice covered in the 1920s and '30s, the so-called Golden Age of Sports: Ty Cobb, Jim Thorpe, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Babe Ruth, Babe Didrikson, Red Grange, the Brown Bomber, the Four Horsemen and the Four Musketeers...
...Brett Heckman, an attorney for Nathan Hall, yesterday. Hall, 18, is being prosecuted in the death of Alan Cobb, a skier with whom he collided while on the job as a ski resort employee. Prosectuors are arguing that a speeding skier is a weapon, much the same way as is a bat or a piece of wood...