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...uplifting sports film through and through. “The Express” tells the true story of Ernie Davis (played by Rob Brown), the first black football player to win college football’s most prestigious award, the Heisman Trophy. Davis hailed from Elmira, a small mining town in Pennsylvania—hence his real nickname, “The Elmira Express”—and followed in the footsteps of NFL hall-of-famer Jim Brown at Syracuse. Davis not only won the Heisman in 1961; he also led Syracuse to its only national championship...
...February 14, 2001: Elmira, New York A high schools student's plans for a school shooting are foiled after students bring the fact that he had weapons on him to a teacher's attention. He carried 14 pipe bombs, three smaller bombs, a propane tank, a sawed-off shotgun, and a .22 caliber pistol into the school by a duffel bag and also a book bag full of ammunition. On December 17, 2001, Jeremy he is sentenced to 8 1/2 years...
UNLIKE SABREENA, DAN KNAPP NEVER RAN away or openly clashed with his adoptive mother. "He never gave me a problem. He just made me proud," says Jackie Knapp, 53, a single mom who is the education director at a Christian center in Elmira, N.Y. Placed in foster care at age 9 after his father died and his mother was unable to care for him on her own, Dan moved in with Jackie and her parents the next year. Now 24, he still remembers the meeting he attended in which his birth mother told the social worker that she was relinquishing...
...response, Hilfiger mentioned his concerns for India and commercialization in Peru. President of the Tommy Hilfiger Corporate Foundation, Guy Vickers, then stood up to cite Hilfiger’s personal donations, such as a $1 million donation to a school in his hometown of Elmira, N.Y. “Relative to peers in the fashion industry, Hilfiger’s admirable. But on a global level, there are many people who don’t wait to make millions before giving back,” Wattie told The Crimson after the speech. But Baruch Shemtov...
...grew up in a housing project in Elmira, N.Y., lived on food stamps for a time and thought about being a math teacher after seeing her father, a surveyor, lay out streets. But Eileen Collins went into the Air Force instead and in 1999 became the first woman to command a shuttle mission--on the Columbia, which broke apart in midair less than four years later, killing its crew of seven. As soon as next month, Collins, 48, will command the shuttle Discovery in the first U.S. manned space flight since the Columbia disaster brought such missions to a halt...