Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...state do everything it can to learn whether it is executing the right person? So far, DNA evidence has exonerated 63 people in U.S. prisons, including several on death row. The latest is Calvin Johnson, released last Tuesday after serving 16 years of a life sentence in Georgia for a murder that a DNA test now shows he didn't commit. But in the O'Dell case, says Paul Enzinna, a lawyer for the dead man's supporters, "the state is saying, 'We want to destroy the evidence for the sole purpose of preventing the public from getting information about...
...cautionary examples actually benefit. Just the opposite may be true. A national study of 12,000 pupils found that students retained before eighth grade are more than twice as likely to drop out of high school as kids who remained with their age group. In 1989, University of Georgia professor Thomas Holmes surveyed 63 studies that compared the performance of retained students with that of similarly poorly performing kids who were promoted; in 54 cases the retained students did worse once they went on to the next grade than those who had not been held back...
...Board of Education. That landmark ruling, handed down on May 17, 1954, held that "separate but equal" public schools for blacks and whites violated the Constitution. It caused a firestorm as the South vowed "massive resistance" to school integration. When Marshall appeared on NBC's Youth Wants to Know, Georgia stations replaced the show with a taped address by segregationist Governor Herman Talmadge...
Bush, a high school wrestler, shot-putter and football player, was one of about five seniors recruited to play college football out of his senior class of approximately 1,200 students at Lakeside High School, a public school outside of Augusta, Georgia...
Bush chose Harvard over other schools such as the Georgia Tech, The Naval Academy, Dartmouth and Brown because "it is Harvard" and because he likes Boston and has relatives in the area. He says his high school generally does not send students to Harvard...