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...University, the investment will yield a substantial return of cash donations. But for the alums themselves, the hydro-seeded grass and freshly painted walls are likely to be just the background for far more important experiences...
Clark and Gaffney leave the talking to Leary. In a crowd, the Mather roommates don't immediately get noticed like Leary does, unless that crowd is spread over an acre and a half of grass, armed with sticks and chasing a ball...
...Atlanta University Complex is littered with cardboard cartons stuffed with records that date back to 1962, when America's homegrown version of apartheid reigned throughout the South and all but a handful of blacks were denied the right to vote. Today, thanks largely to VEP'S unheralded support of grass-roots voter- registration and education drives, 5.5 million Southern blacks have registered and the number of black elected officials in the region has exploded from less than 100 to more than...
...they are neither good nor bad, exactly, but something else -- Disneyish. The Saudi pavilion, a fake Arab ruin into which a fake nomadic hovel has been inserted, is like a second-rate SITE rip-off -- except that SITE actually designed it. The South Pacific pavilion is a compound of grass huts (or was -- it burned down last week, but is to be rebuilt promptly). New Zealand's conventional steel-and- glass facade gives way at one end to a rugged Pacific promontory, complete with recorded ocean noises, artificial stones and plastic seabirds...
...movement has especially strong grass-roots support in Uzbekistan's Fergana Valley, a hotbed of Muslim resistance to communist rule. Angered by the new regime's failure to deal with corruption and a growing crime rate, local militants in the city of Namangan have organized local Islamic guard patrols, who punish offenders with religious indoctrination and the public pillory. Communist propaganda posters still decorate the streets, but the cry of "God is great!" echoing from the mosques has a more stirring effect on the local population. During afternoon prayers, the Islamic guards keep order among the steady stream...