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Leading the Huskies this season has been junior Marcus Blossom. After scoring only four points against UNC-Greensboro on Nov. 27, Blossom has been on a scoring rampage, averaging 20.7 points per game in the Huskies' last three contests...
...slogans like George W. Bush's "Prosperity with a Purpose." But Bradley's spiritual pitch differs from his rivals' in two important respects. First, he was offering his brand of cosmic humanism long before the political consultants realized people might be receptive to it. Almost two years ago in Greensboro, N.C., I watched him transfix 1,200 people at a volunteerism conference with a riff about "being alive to the smallest things: a child's question, the color of a turning leaf, a sight you've never seen that you pass on your way to work each day." Second, unlike...
That's why, for example, police, a bomb squad and a team of hostage negotiators descended on Grimsley High School in Greensboro, N.C., this August. Hostages had been taken, and the campus was under siege. It was all staged, with people acting the role of hostage takers, but there was nothing fake about the purpose. With the school's cooperation, the grim 6-hr. exercise was an opportunity for police and school officials to sharpen their response in an emergency. "You prepare for the worst and hope for the best," says David Robinette, a Greensboro policeman who is beginning...
DIED. CLARENCE L. HARRIS, 94, lunch manager who in 1960 let four black students remain seated at Woolworth's whites-only counter; in Greensboro, N.C. Harris did not serve the protesters, but his insistence that police not be called helped energize the sit-in, which after six months (and hundreds of demonstrators) succeeded in integrating the counter. The action sparked similar tests across the South...
...judgment the West keeps making. Milosevic, like Ho Chi Minh, sees the struggles of his countrymen only as the means to achieve an ethnically pure nation. The bait has been taken: NATO and the U.S. are headed down the slippery slope of ever increasing commitment in Yugoslavia. CHARLES GARNER Greensboro...