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...Birmingham's all-white Phillips High School, wasn't preoccupied with the civil rights movement either. His family quietly sympathized with blacks' efforts to eat at regular lunch counters, attend integrated schools and vote without hindrance. His father, a manager at a Sears store, privately scorned Eugene (Bull) Connor, the police commissioner who turned fire hoses and attack dogs on black demonstrators, some as young as 7. Still, if the Simses lamented the injustices, they didn't challenge them. As a teen, Sims had girls, his guitar and the Beach Boys on his mind...
...think this award may help our recruiting a little bit,” said Harvard sailing coach Mike O’Connor. “But I don’t think the impact will be too significant. Harvard is an appealing place to be a student-athlete regardless of the recognition by the ECAC...
Some artists sing the song, and some let the song sing them. For Aretha Franklin, the song has always been incidental - a cheap vehicle for her amazing voice. Sinéad O'Connor, who possesses a completely different but equally distinctive talent, reveals herself in the lyrics she performs. Now both have terrific new CDs that showcase their strengths. With just one song, Respect, Franklin introduced feminism to popular music, but she has also sung about lesser things convincingly - like riding on a freeway of love in a pink Cadillac and being drawn through destiny to duet partner George Michael...
...This whole conference was designed to be very intentionally multiracial,” he said. “It was a kind of a living illustration of the power of what [Justice Sandra Day O’Connor] talked about” in that decision...
Charles E. Connor of the William A. Berry and Son construction management company has been overseeing the community impacts of all of the FAS projects, running a hotline for residents to call with concerns...