Word: nottingham
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Acting--"the desire to communicate," she says--is her passion, but it was also clearly her salvation. She grew up poor, in public housing in Nottingham, in the north of England, with eight brothers and sisters, and was shuffled in and out of foster homes. She left school at 13, and though she refuses to talk about those rough days--"I don't want my future in acting to be about my past"--her chance to participate in an acting workshop from ages 11 to 16 was her big break into that future...
...bombing of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., that killed an off-duty police officer and severely wounded a nurse, they were confident they would arrest the itinerant carpenter within a matter of days. But like a latter-day, albeit sinister, Robin Hood eluding the Sheriff of Nottingham, Rudolph, 31, a former private in the 101st Airborne skilled at surviving in the wilderness, vanished into the mountainous woods of southwestern North Carolina. And despite being wanted for questioning in the Olympic bombing and two other Atlanta explosions, he is inexplicably becoming a local celebrity, an anti-hero evoking sympathy...
...authors can wheel out as many American experts as they like, expound on as many theories as they like of how American procedures could have saved Diana's life, but this is just another tacky attempt to make money out of Diana's horrific death. MARY WESTCOTT-YOUNG Nottingham, England...
...current policy, middle-class whites and Asians indirectly subsidize the education of affluent minorities. Their tuition helps pay for the department's many expenses, thereby allowing the department to award generous financial aid packages to under-represented minorities. In effect, the department, like some modern day Sheriff of Nottingham, steals from the poor to give to the rich. We urge the government department to correct this inequitable policy by rewarding financial aid for all admittees solely on the basis of need...
...country north of Nairobi. A single-engine Cessna that Leakey was piloting with four passengers aboard lost power and crash-landed. "It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors," recalled Leakey, speaking last week from a hospital bed in Nottingham, England. "So I told the passengers in as lighthearted a way as possible that they were going to have to find their own way from this point on, looked for friendly trees to hit, turned off the ignition and tried to come in level. Unfortunately, I could...