URBANA Celina Villanueva knew things wouldn't be the same. She grew up in Chicago. Not in white, north-side Chicago, but in Little Village, a mostly Hispanic enclave on the southwest side, and she attended Kenwood Academy, a predominantly black school on the south side.

A white former sheriff's deputy who was once thought to be dead was arrested on federal charges Wednesday in one of the last major unsolved crimes of the civil rights era the 1964 killings of two black men who were beaten and dumped alive into the Mississippi River.

James D. Mooney thrust his arm diagonally, watching its reflection in his hotel suite mirror. Not quite right. He tried once again. Still not right. Was it too stiff Too slanted Should his palm stretch perpendicular to the ceiling; should his arm bend at a severe angle

Forward Thinking Woman, a quarterly magazine of social conscience launched by Jane Geisinger of Fergus Falls, debuts March 15. Like its title implies, the magazine if for the thinking woman; go elsewhere if you want fashion tips or ideas on how to snag the perfect man.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28 The orange and blue neon lights of the Castro Theater shone blurrily on the damp asphalt beneath the crisscrossing catenary wires of the streetcars. The words on the marquee in the Friday night gloom, read: Marsha Hunt: In Person. .

An eye-catcher among the treetops and McMansions west of Florida's Turnpike, the Kabbalah Centre is topped by a distinctive domed roof. The signs of the zodiac are painted on the inner ceiling of the dome, which hovers over the entry to the main room. The 34,000 square-foot center houses a meeting and retreat center and a large store, including copies of the Zohar, the multivolume core text of ...

ONE DAY, a little over five years ago, Russ Lease decided what the world needed was historically accurate, reasonably priced reproductions of Beatles clothing: stitch-for-stit ch copies of