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...premed student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, to which he transferred last year. An avid deer hunter and a high school math-honor-society student, Cloyd remained close to two friends he met during his freshman and sophomore years at Birmingham-Southern College, Russell DeBusk and Benjamin Moseley. The 19-year-old theater majors were a tight pair at the small liberal-arts school, which is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Known as extroverted cutups with a bit of a wild side, they were described in the campus newspaper as budding actors "on the road to stardom...
...male leads in the show, Benjamin K. Glaser ’09 as Amos Hart, also delivers an impressive performance. Glaser is stunningly convincing as Roxie’s pathetic husband, tottering clumsily and bashfully around on the stage. He has not simply reenacted John C. Reilly’s version of the character from the 2003 Rob Marshall film adaptation of “Chicago”—instead, Glaser puts his own spin on his character, playing Amos with an almost childish eagerness and gullibility...
...would achieve his goals of universal health care and better public schools, but he insisted that by resisting cynicism and approaching problems with imagination and optimism, a better state could emerge. Standing at “the cradle of liberty,” before portraits of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, Patrick invoked history to impress on the crowd the significance of their campaign. “For three centuries, great movements for change have been launched and nurtured from Massachusetts,” Patrick said. “In each case, this is where the people of Massachusetts came...
...said that the combination of the anti-Coke advocacy and the pressure against AlliedBarton at last night’s event would help students to see these two efforts as part of “one struggle.” —Staff writer Benjamin L. Weintraub can be reached at bweintr@fas.harvard.edu...
...According to court documents filed Wednesday in Alabama, Russell Lee DeBusk Jr., 19, Benjamin Nathan Moseley, 19, and Mathew Lee Cloyd, 20, say they set five small, isolated churches about 50 miles southwest of their Birmingham homes ablaze Feb. 3 as a joke after a night of deer hunting and drinking. Then they set four similar churches on fire Feb. 7 some 100 miles west of Birmingham to try to throw investigators off any clues. Instead, identical tire tracks from Cloyd?s Toyota 4Runner ultimately led investigators to the threesome. Moseley, Cloyd and DeBusk are all being held on federal...