Tag: Birmingham (Ala)

A Private Liberal Arts College Is Drowning in Debt. Should Alabama Rescue It?

On a crisp fall day at Birmingham-Southern College, the students were making their way to class, stealing a few cold minutes under the golden ginkgo trees. Inside the red brick buildings that dot the 192-acre campus, professors were preparing exams for finals week, while administrators readied the first round of acceptance letters for the next […]

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Interview: Natalee Holloway’s Mother Talks Joran van der Sloot’s Confession

It was May 31, 2005, at 4 a.m., when Beth Holloway first confronted Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch student who was one of three people who had been seen, just hours earlier, leaving a nightclub in Aruba with her daughter, Natalee Holloway. Standing outside the Holiday Inn where Natalee, 18, had been staying with […]

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Joran van der Sloot Admits to Killing Natalee Holloway

The man who has long been linked to the 2005 overseas disappearance of the American teenager Natalee Holloway pleaded guilty in federal court in Alabama on Wednesday to charges that he tried to extort Ms. Holloway’s mother, prosecutors said. According to the plea agreement, Joran van der Sloot, a 36-year-old Dutchman, agreed to provide “full, […]

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What Does America Owe the Victims of Racial Terrorism?

I met Sarah Collins Rudolph, a small woman nestled into a corded khaki sofa, last month in her darkened living room in Birmingham, Ala. The room is something of a shrine, commemorating the 1963 act of terror that killed four little girls but spared a fifth. She was that fifth little girl. She survived the […]

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