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...ironic that, in this fiftieth year since Brown, that de jure black-white segregation has morphed into de facto black-white-Hispanic segregation today. With it have come some of the same problems that existed during the Jim Crow era—functional illiteracy, diminished motivation and under-performance on academic and employment testing...

Author: By David L. Evans, | Title: 50 Years Later | 5/14/2004 | See Source »

Harvard will head into the fall with three kickers vying for the starting job next season, hoping to find someone who can finally put an end to the Crimson’s recent kicking woes. With Adam Kingston graduating, it appeared that sophomore Jim Morocco—who was 2-of-4 on field goal attempts last season—would have the inside track on the job. But if anyone is in the lead right now, it would be freshman Derek Case, who connected on field goals of 22 and 28 yards yesterday and nailed an extra point with...

Author: By David H. Stearns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fitzpatrick, Mazza In Midseason Form | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

Sultan, 33, a mid-career student at the KSG, decided last week that he would run against 20-year incumbent Jim Kolbe for Arizona’s District 8 Congressional seat...

Author: By Laura A. Morris, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: KSG Student To Run for Congress | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

...Kerry get it? On the Bay Hap River on March 13, 1969, a mine exploded under Kerry's boat, driving shrapnel into his arm and knocking Green Beret Jim Rassmann overboard. Despite heavy fire, Kerry turned the boat around and pulled Rassmann back on board with his good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Kerry Earned His Decorations | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

...prominently in the foyer of Joseph Elliott's home in Summerton, S.C., is a portrait of the Confederate Army general, Robert E. Lee. Nearby, however, Elliott just as proudly displays newspaper clippings of his late great-uncle, a real-life Atticus Finch who defended blacks in the era of Jim Crow. Elliott, 64, has struggled a lifetime to reconcile these mixed images of the South. But one picture noticeably absent from his gallery is that of his late grandfather, R.M. Elliott, a wealthy sawmill owner and former Summerton school-board chairman who, in the 1940s, refused to provide bus transportation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clarendon County, S.C.: Confronting the Shame of the Past | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

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