Word: raleighs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four-year starter from Raleigh, N.C., posted a record 31 shutouts during her Harvard career, and holds the school mark with 424 career saves. Whitley was named to the first-team All-Ivy squad in her freshman and junior years...
...wife of 46 years, is puzzled: "To me, he's just little Jesse Helms that I married however many years ago. He's a very simple person. He just believes certain things, and he acts on them, and that's it." They met when both were working at the Raleigh News and Observer, she as editor of the society page, he as a sports reporter. They have raised two daughters and a son, whom the Helmses adopted as a 9-year-old orphan with cerebral palsy after reading about him in the newspaper one Christmas...
Helms, one of only six Senators who do not have a college degree, dropped out of Wake Forest to become a reporter, then program director of a Raleigh radio station. Years later, his unabashedly conservative editorials for a Raleigh television station won him a statewide following and future political base. He first came to Washington in the early 1950s as a staffer to North Carolina's Senator Willis Smith, but the advice he remembers best came from Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell: "Jesse," he told him, "a Senator who does not know the rules can be cut to ribbons...
Victims who go to the police often find them insensitive or even hostile. When Raleigh, N.C., Bar Owner Warren Kilby was stabbed during a tryst with another man in 1986, police warned him that if he insisted on pressing charges, he could go to prison for admitting that he had committed sodomy. In January, University of Illinois Music Professor Michael Cameron was kicked and beaten on a Chicago street by a man who repeatedly asked him if he was "straight." When Cameron tried to report the incident to two policemen, the officers drove away...
Shari Aigner, an administrator of the Denver-based Independent Relocation Consultants Association, says that of the working couples who use her organization's services, "one in five reject transfers because the trailing spouse cannot find a job." Companies in Dayton and the Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area are now providing information about job openings to help overcome such difficulties...