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...ships race in and out of port. Now Nauru can only afford to pay him and his fellow ministers, including the nation's president, $A100 a fortnight. Even the minister must rely on relatives catching fish to feed him and his family. It's a sorry fall from the 1960s and '70s when phosphate exports brought the 21-sq. km republic wild riches. Now the wealth, and most of the phosphate, is gone, squandered in poor investment decisions, mismanagement and corruption. An overseas property portfolio once worth...
American progressives need a big project. In the 1960s, Freedom Summer was that project. Our parents’ generation abandoned their jobs and the glories of college life to bring a little ray of hope to the darkest spot in the struggle for civil rights. It was exactly the wrong place to go. Unlike Tennessee or parts of Georgia, Mississippi didn’t have a history of compromise on racial issues. Mississippians who opposed civil rights were more than willing to use violence, and state authorities were curiously unable to apprehend the criminals who harassed and even killed civil...
...Americans,” but the mass incarceration society we live in differs significantly from slavery and segregation. Their purpose was to extract cheap labor from blacks while still maintaining enough social distance between races for whites to benefit materially and psychologically. Globalization, however, wreaked havoc on this pre-1960s American social order as manufacturing jobs (and social mobility) moved to the suburbs and then overseas. Pushed into benefit-deprived, unstable service economy jobs, or into chronic un- or underemployment, black workers confined to the bottom of the economic hierarchy became economically unviable as laborers. Herded into the abandoned central...
Wolff’s grandfather Bob Wolff was the broadcaster for both the Washington Senators and the Minnesota Twins in the 1950s and ’60s. Recently elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame, Bob Wolff left radio to broadcast baseball games for NBC in the early 1960s and later went on to broadcast in Madison Square Garden. Rick Wolff, John’s father, moved on from pro baseball and has become a radio broadcaster in New York City for WFAN...
Cohen said that it might be more cost effective to build a new complex elsewhere than to renovate the gray buildings, constructed in the late 1960s...