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...letter on display, from the President of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, informs Othello’s artistic company that the audience of the play would have to be segregated according to Texas’s Jim Crow laws. The production’s artistic company refused to perform before segregated audiences, and so Othello did not tour Baylor University, or, in fact, any Southern city. Even in Northern cities, segregation was such a fact of life that Robeson, although a national star, had trouble finding hotel accommodations in some cities...
...ordinance is similar to one the county adopted in 1993 during the 51-day siege by federal law enforcement at the Branch Davidian complex east of Waco. When that incident ended tragically, the sheriff complained that he might have solved the standoff more peacefully over a cup of coffee. So far, the current sheriff and his deputies have opted for a laid back approach and there have been only a couple of confrontations, including the arrest of a man who mowed down symbolic crosses planted along the roadway by anti-war protestors. But controlling the crowds is taking its toll...
...protestors are supplied with large jugs of water and iced tea by a volunteer shuttle service based at the Crawford Peace House, in this tiny Texas town some 20 miles south of Waco. Tracy Sivacek, the 40-year-old wife of an Army Apache helicopter pilot, delivers water to Sheehan's busy outpost. Sivacek left behind her husband and disabled five-year-old son on Monday and drove nonstop from Fort Rucker, Alabama to Crawford, pausing only to sleep in a Waffle House parking lot. Her husband served one tour in Iraq and, she says, he has not been handling...
PLEADED GUILTY. CARLTON DOTSON, 23, ex-basketball player for Baylor University; to the 2003 shooting murder of his former teammate, friend and sometime roommate, star center PATRICK DENNEHY; in Waco, Texas. Dotson, who claimed to have been hearing voices at the time of the shooting and who was initially ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial, surprised prosecutors by pleading guilty--without any deals for leniency--a few days before jury selection was to begin. He faces up to life in prison...
...really glad it’s over,” said Republican Christina L. Hazel, a senior at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. “I am happy that America came out and voted in record numbers...