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...there's some evidence for that. "No matter how much counseling, no matter how much social work we put into someone, until we give them something spiritual to fill that void, they won't really change," says the Rev. Ralph E. Williamson, a minister on the staff of the Mecklenburg County, N.C., department of social services with 23 years' experience in the field. "I always tell people that I can't bring salvation through the department of social services." In fact, many programs that aim at life transformation--most notably the hugely successful Alcoholics Anonymous--consider belief in a higher...
More impressive may be the fact that there are only two seniors--captain Layla Adolphson and Liz Yellen--and one junior--Amy Mecklenburg--in the first boat. This is a youth-dominated squad, which bodes well for the next several years. With Radcliffe dominated by underclassmen and still the favorites for a second-straight national title, an era of domination may be beginning...
...year it was to Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. "We got the chance to see the electric chair," he says. There have been visits to a prison in Chesapeake and a women's penal institution in Goochland. Two months ago, it was a walk through Death Row at Mecklenburg Correctional Center...
...court announced, "The time for mere 'deliberate speed' has run out." In 1968 the court declared that discrimination must be "eliminated root and branch." In 1971, noting that about 40% of American schoolchildren routinely rode buses to and from school anyway, the court held in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education that the federal courts could order busing to desegregate schools...
...There were situations at other schools where a coach would say 'I need to know if you're going to come here. If you say you will, I'll help you out and put you at such and such a level on the recruiting list,'" says Amy L. Mecklenburg '98, who was recruited for Radcliffe crew...