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DIED. HUGH GLOSTER, 90, longtime president of Morehouse College who oversaw the historically black school's rapid expansion in the key post-civil rights era; in Decatur, Ga. In his 19-year tenure, enrollment and faculty doubled...
CHARGED. SIDNEY DORSEY, 61, former sheriff of De Kalb County, Ga.; with the December 2000 murder of his successor, Derwin Brown; in Decatur, Ga. Dorsey has denied involvement in the fatal shooting, investigated by TIME in February, saying the gunmen who ambushed Brown in his driveway should get the death penalty. Two weeks ago, a former Dorsey confidant and deputy revived the stalled investigation by cooperating with prosecutors...
...advanced standing senior applied math concentrator, Espy says he has taken five classes a semester since he arrived at Harvard from Chamblee High School in Decatur, Georgia...
...between being good to one's family or good to one's community, it's not much of a choice at all. Many, of course, try to be both, but some parents say the schools are too far gone. Amy Langley, who home schools her son and daughter in Decatur, Ga., believes two-income families don't participate enough to make public schools work. "And too much class time is spent on discipline," she says...
...tables this spring, accusing Ford of refusing to share data about possible Explorer problems. At the same time, Ford was studying a government analysis of tires that Firestone did not include in last year's recall. Although the rate of problems was lower than it had been for the Decatur tires, the data persuaded Ford to announce its recall--even though Ford and Firestone had insisted for months that the problems were confined to the Decatur plant...