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...about dictators. The second installment, Shah of Shahs, traces the rise and fall of Iran's Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Kapuscinski labored for years on a third volume, about Uganda's Idi Amin, but apparently could not find words for his excesses. When the Soviet Union foundered in the late 1980s, he abandoned Amin and headed for Moscow. The result, Imperium, is a perceptive travelogue-memoir of living under communism and watching it collapse. Another Day of Life is a harrowing account of the 1970s Angolan civil war; The Shadow of the Sun contains the best of the author's Africa...
...1980s and '90s, as NASCAR marched through the North like Sherman through Georgia, France slowly altered NASCAR's image to make it more mainstream. He asked his drivers to sign more autographs and forced them to behave on the track as well. When two of his stars, Dale Earnhardt and Geoff Bodine, were engaging in weekly sparring matches, France told them to cut it out or find another line of work. NASCAR, whose rank and file once included criminals, was coming to stand for integrity...
After I left Harvard in the 1980s, I did not “stay in touch.” While I truly enjoyed and appreciated my undergraduate years at Harvard, two additional years of eating in the Freshman Union and vicariously experiencing freshman angst as a Proctor in Wigglesworth kept me from ever romanticizing or becoming nostalgic for my own undergraduate days. I don’t know if it was swabbing stairwells on Sunday mornings, or chasing squirrels that tumbled down Wigg B’s chimney with a broom, or locating freshmen who had decamped to follow...
Eight years ago, I wrapped up my elementary education at Advent Episcopal Day School in Birmingham, Ala., but I remain an ardent Calvinist. I never read Calvin, my favorite philosopher, in a Harvard class, but the miniature, striped-shirt Buddha from the 1980s Bill Watterson cartoon still affects my thinking and writing today...
...them to defend their legal rights and improve the quality of their lives.” The Massachusetts Small Claims Court settles disputes of less than $2000—typically cases involving automobile law, landlord-tenet law, consumer law, and debt law. The Spanish-speaking contingent rose in the 1980s, said SCAS Executive Director Marco P. Basile ’08. According to Basile, the Hispanic population in Massachusetts grew by 50 percent between the 1990 and 2000 censuses—as such, it is the fastest growing segment of the population, making up about seven percent of the Massachusetts...