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...until he began his first teaching job at the University of Maryland in 1958 that Lee moved decisively to the far left. Many of Lee's colleagues and graduate students in Maryland were fairly leftist, he recalls, and in the late 1950s, anti-Communism was less virulent than earlier in the decade...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radical's Anti-War Crusade Stirs Up Trouble at University of Hawaii | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

Little girls used to dress up like soccer star Mia Hamm. But they have a new athlete role model. She's Jen Adams, star of the University of Maryland's women's lacrosse team, which is favored to win its seventh straight NCAA championship on May 20. Adams is spearheading the fast-rising popularity of lacrosse, especially among girls and young women. Since 1995, more than 40 new varsity women's programs have been established at U.S. colleges and universities. The sport is growing in high schools as well: more than two-thirds of the nation's several hundred thousand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lacrosse | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...state's 2000 elections went to Republican candidates. Gallagher, Governor Jeb Bush and Comptroller Roger Milligan, who oversee the retirement fund, are Republicans all. But Florida wouldn't be the first to reverse itself: of the nine states who divested themselves of tobacco since 1996, Kentucky and Maryland have since allowed for re-investment. Still, Rhea Chiles, wife of the late Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, who led the divestment drive, noted that "if the decision to invest in tobacco is simply one of dollars and cents, why in the world would [we] feed the demon that will cost our taxpayers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida Rethinks Big Tobacco | 5/25/2001 | See Source »

...Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs GOP chair: Phil Gramm, Texas Democratic chair: Paul Sarbanes, Maryland Effect of change: Sarbanes? quiet style means less publicity for committee and his distaste for financial mega-institutions could mean fewer mergers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jeffords Defection: The Domino Effect | 5/24/2001 | See Source »

...trading they can do with the White House. But they already have a No. 1 target: U.S. District Court Judge TERRENCE W. BOYLE, 55, a protege of North Carolina conservative Senator JESSE HELMS. Bush has tapped Boyle for the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the Carolinas. North Carolina's other Senator, Democrat JOHN EDWARDS, opposes Boyle, but Edwards is holding off blocking the nomination to see if he can strike a deal with the White House. Edwards wants Bush to appoint another North Carolinian to the Fourth Circuit, state appeals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Judicial Picks Could Be a Battle Boyle | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

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