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...bringing that up. I write about race in this book with a great deal of sadness. When I was in high school and college in the ?60s, the civil rights movement was the most important movement and the most moral movement of my time, and of the 20th century, for that matter. Martin Luther King, in my opinion, was one of the five most important, decent Americans since our founding as a nation. What happens after Martin Luther King gets assassinated? We get Jesse Jackson, we get Al Sharpton. If the implication is that you can?t write about Jesse...
...built in Anaheim, Calif., which opened 50 years ago this week. But Walt's vision of idyllic small-town America now has a surprisingly un-Midwestern twist. Inside one Victorian building is Main Street's first Chinese restaurant, the Plaza Inn, crafted as a stylish tea shop from early 20th century Shanghai. The interior has traditional landscapes of the Chinese countryside painted on the walls. The murals have been based on the Disney animated movie Mulan, which was inspired by a Chinese legend. Soon the workers in white hard hats, who are still screwing the final bolts in place, will...
...made me feel a bit of respect for some of their policies. The interrogation you described involved only disrespect to Mohammed al-Qahtani's personal dignity. That man is not an innocent Iraqi being dragged around Abu Ghraib on a leash. He is suspected of being the so-called 20th hijacker from Sept. 11, 2001. If he had had his way, United Airlines Flight 93 would have plummeted into the White House or the Capitol. If your article was intended to show the U.S.'s abuse of power, you picked the wrong case study. The U.S. has demonstrated incredible restraint...
...dedicated guardian of an endangered treasure. Crammed into 113 sq m of a decrepit six-bedroom apartment in downtown Tallinn, capital of Estonia, are some 50,000 mostly handwritten pages of music and manuscripts, and 1,500 hours of unique audio and video recordings of music by the great 20th century Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. This cache of riches has been piling up at the apartment, home of Matsov's father, Roman, Shostakovich's favorite conductor. The works were performed and recorded against the will of Soviet bosses, who either banned Shostakovich or suspected him of "formalism" and other anti...
...Second World War until he comes home and raises a family of his own during the 1950s. Based heavily on King's own life, as evidenced by the archival materials provided in the book, "Gasoline Alley" would essentially become an illustrated daily diary of an American family in the 20th century...