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...most violent, and most important, protests of the 1960s occurred at Columbia University...
...colored people in Gates' hometown of Piedmont, nestled in a sleepy hollow between the Allegheny Mountains and the Potomac River Valley. At first folks simply watched the speeches and marches on television. When the effects of the civil rights movement finally did come to the town in the 1960s, the impact was ambiguous. Blacks welcomed expanded job opportunities and an end to humiliating reminders of where -- quite literally -- they stood: they were now allowed to sit down in white restaurants. But integration also meant that the nurturing institutions blacks had created to take the sting out of segregation would become...
...controversy provides a vivid example of the crosscurrents that roil IBM. It has a motley collection of computers and software that fail to fit ( comfortably together. IBM solved a similar problem in the 1960s when it launched a family of computers called the System/360, which were all compatible with one another. "IBM has to find a way to pull its product lines together into a coherent whole," says Stewart Alsop, editor in chief of the trade journal InfoWorld. "That's the question about Gerstner: Does this guy know enough about computers to know what makes a good product?" Microsoft chairman...
...match Blanchard's precision and flair in evoking emotion. In the course of two albums on his own, and five others with various collaborators, he has developed an expressive style reminiscent of the mid-1960s Miles Davis. He has also distinguished himself by his sideline as one of Hollywood's busiest composers: three movies with Blanchard scores -- Sugar Hill, Inkwell and Crooklyn -- are now playing in theaters...
Mandela has always taken the long view, and sometimes this gives him victories in battles that were started decades ago. After the government began to implement its Bantustan policies in the 1960s and '70s, a plan to relegate all blacks to poor, quasi-independent tribal homelands, Mandela urged the . A.N.C. to make peace with the black leaders of these enclaves whom many in the movement scorned as traitors. The A.N.C. shied away from this policy, but he kept arguing his case. In the past three years, however, the A.N.C. has brought these leaders into its embrace...