Word: regina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case currently before the Supreme Court, Sharon Russell, a 335-lb. nursing student at Salve Regina College in Newport, R.I., was thrown out of school because she failed to lose 2 lbs. a week. Now a nurse in Florida, Russell, 26, sued Salve Regina and won a $44,000 jury verdict. But the school appealed, arguing that her obesity kept Russell, an A student, from completing her clinical requirements. Says Salve Regina's lawyer Steven Snow: "There are certain physical requirements you have to fulfill to be a nurse. I don't know of any blind people who are nurses...
Other nominees in the rock vocalist Alannah Myles, Stevie Nicks and Tina Turner. Also receiving nominations in the R&B category were Anita Baker, Pebbles, Patti LaBelle and Regina Belle...
...There's a real reversal going on," says Regina Barreca, an assistant professor of English at the University of Connecticut and the author of two books on female humor. "Women's comedy used to be local and specific -- 'Oh, look at my hair, look at my legs, I'm so fat.' Now male humor seems to be taking a step back to 'Take my wife -- please,' and women comics seem to be much more subversive...
...idea of how to spend a month of summer vacation, but for the 90 black youngsters enrolled in Love of Learning, a three-year-old minority-enrichment program at North Carolina's Davidson College, schoolwork is hot stuff. "They get motivated when they come here," says English teacher Regina Brandon. "This is an opportunity for them to get rid of some of the stumbling blocks that hold them back...
...L.A.P.D. claims it has the support of crime-ridden minority communities for the harsh crackdown on the gangs. But residents retort that whatever support they give the police stems from their even greater fear of trigger- happy gangs. Says Regina Jones, a black publicity consultant and former police department radio operator who lives in South Central Los Angeles: "People are frightened of the police, but they are more frightened of our own youth." Epigmenio Alvarez, a factory worker, complains that roadblocks set up by police to disrupt the movement of gang members and drug dealers in mostly Hispanic East...