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...shaking her head, and I knew he was going to get a talking-to," David remembers. Rowley would point out errors not to embarrass him but to make sure he corrected himself the following day, David says. "She wanted to make sure the rest of us understood it correctly for our college entrance exams. She wasn't trying to show off. She wanted to help...
...although ecclesiastical changes are sometimes hushed for a while, this one was made public almost at once. Says Scott Appleby, a professor of Catholic history at the University of Notre Dame: "The crisis finally has been acknowledged by Rome to be as serious as most American Catholics have understood it to be for months...
...Coach Murphy met with me the next morning,” said sophomore quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick. “At first I was a little upset, but once I understood the whole situation, I really don’t think [Mills] had the opportunity to tell...
Vaux’s segue comment, though perhaps both poorly phrased and poorly understood, is not the cause for concern that the Kuumba singers believe it is. I do not believe that this is a case of irresponsibly crying wolf, but rather a misunderstanding and false alarm. The Social Analysis 34 classroom is a forum for the science of language, not the politics of race...
...urged Reagan to deliver his first major campaign speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three civil rights workers were murdered in one of the 1960s' ugliest cases of racist violence. It was a ringing declaration of his support for "states' rights" - a code word for resistance to black advances clearly understood by white Southern voters...