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...rocky academic career at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High, and moved almost immediately to the comic arena, hitting the open mike at 19 and "doing things here and there" by 23. She didn't receive much parental support for her career move...
...UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA in Lincoln last Thursday, a group of 30 students, faculty and others met to try to come to terms with their thoughts. Everyone seemed weary and heavyhearted. A young white woman said, "It pains me to think that this is still going on. I take it personally. It upsets me. I've been brought up to believe that there is no difference between the races. Now I think I've been fooling myself...
...year later, her parents have filed a lawsuit against Heath's parents, various police officers and county officials, and a local physician and physician's assistant, charging trespass, false arrest and assault, among other things. The case, which will be heard in federal court in Lincoln, Nebraska, as early as the end of the year, has suddenly thrust Blair, a city of 7,250 that is so placid that mayoral candidates have run unopposed for the past 12 years, deep into the rancorous national debate over who has a right to influence a pregnant woman's decision...
...step in to make the transition to the new language easier. But as the vast majority of Hmong children became concentrated in four of the district's 13 elementary schools, test scores showed the immigrant children were not keeping up with their U.S.-born peers. Two years ago, Lincoln Elementary School had a Hmong population of 70%. The situation prompted the school board to adopt a controversial busing plan in which six schools would swap about half their children. The restructuring, supported by 87% of teachers, was to boost academic achievement and bring together a community that was becoming more...
...unusual problem. A large number of eligible voters were illiterate; they simply could not read the ballots. Corrupt party members often attempted to exploit this illiteracy by disguising their ballot to look like the other party's ballot. For example, Democrats would print ballots with pictures of Abraham Lincoln, so those unsuspecting and illiterate might suppose that they were voting Republican...