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...Take Savannah State University, a 173-acre (70 hectare) campus of tawny brick buildings and Spanish-moss-covered oaks that hosts some 3,400 students. Under Harp's proposal, it would keep its name but merge with Armstrong Atlantic State, a majority-white school of about 7,000 down the road. Founded in 1890 as the Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth, Savannah State opened at its current site on a wooded salt marsh in 1891, 70 years before the state's universities were integrated. Its first president, Richard Wright Sr., was born into slavery...
...Skipper, the penguin-in-chief (co-director McGrath), manages to overcome his complete cluelessness as a pilot by safely landing a plane carrying our heroes on the African savannah - "Who said penguins couldn't fly?" - all the while issuing commands to his brain-challenged underlings, one of whom gets a quick laugh trying to spit and ending up with a string of drool on his bib. Julien the lemur (Sacha Baron Cohen) is a frantic pantaloon who waves the stars on the plane back into Economy: "This is First Class. It's nothing personal. It's just that...
...injured in a car accident, leading to the loss of the group’s travel funding. An organization known as “Americans in Italy for Obama” had promised to provide the group with plane tickets to Raleigh, NC, Winston-Salem, NC, Atlanta, Ga., and Savannah, Ga. The Democrats received word on Saturday that David Gall, the member of the Italian group who was responsible for purchasing the campaigners’ plane tickets, had been injured in a car accident and would be unable to organize the trip. Dems president Jarret A. Zafran...
Cries from global leaders—including Pope Benedict XVI, former President Jimmy Carter and Archbishop Desmond Tutu—have brought the unusual case of Troy Davis into the national spotlight. Davis, who claims he was wrongly convicted of shooting a police officer in Savannah, Georgia in 1989, has seen seven out of the nine witnesses who pointed to him recant their testimonies in recent years. A long series of appeals over the past 19 years left the Supreme Court as his last hope to save him from his execution, which was scheduled for Sept. 23. Yet this past...
...alongside Frank Sinatra as one of the lead vocalists for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Connie Haines made her mark with rhythmic, up-tempo songs like "Oh, Look at Me Now" and "Snooty Little Cutie." Haines got her start at the age of 4, performing in theaters in her native Savannah, Ga. She later made radio appearances with Abbott and Costello, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope and television appearances with Milton Berle and Ed Sullivan. She also performed for five U.S. Presidents, a testament to her enduring career. Haines...