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...DIED. RICHARD G. BUTLER, 86, founder of the white-supremacist group Aryan Nations; in Hayden, Idaho. Butler, who developed his racist ideology after witnessing the caste system while in India during World War II, became a high priest of white hate, preaching that blacks were inferior and Jews evil. His movement spawned chapters in a dozen states and contacts around the globe but was effectively bankrupted by a $6.3 million lawsuit in 2001 filed by a woman and her son who were assaulted by Aryan Nations guards outside Butler's Idaho compound...
...California. As an IBM engineering manager, he convinced the company to invest more than $5 billion in developing the famous S/360 class computer that helped turn IBM into a data-processing power soon after its introduction in 1964. DIED. RICHARD BUTLER, 86, white supremacist whose compound in rural Idaho, Aryan Nations, was the center of a U.S. neo-Nazi network with links around the globe; in Hayden, Idaho. Though some of his followers were later convicted of race crimes, Butler, a former aerospace engineer, ran the compound openly until a 1998 assault by his guards on a Native American woman...
Secluded headquarters, aspirations to Aryan physical perfection, mandated uniforms and a charismatic leader may at first conjure thoughts of something other than the workplace culture of one of America’s leading clothing retailers. However, this is the cult of Abercrombie. Kids wants to be the models that grace the pages of the A&F Quarterly and adults want to do them. And, if you want to get in on the action, there may be an opening (and perhaps even an escape pod to the planet Ab) with your name on it. Just make sure...
...back." That's actually what happened. When he won his fourth medal that day, after setting three world records, Jesse was the hero of the whole Games. To everyone. Except for Hitler. The dictator looked almost unbeatable at the time, but Jesse's victories upset his theory about an Aryan master race. Jesse Owens was the greatest track athlete we have ever had. But he was also a great hero for everybody concerned. I'm proud to have been his friend...
...were telling the story of individual people, those who, to use Stephen Spender's phrase, "left the vivid air signed with their honor." (Or with their shame. History is not just a gallery of heroes.) Here's Jesse Owens waving to Hitler after crushing the Fuhrer's idea of Aryan superiority. Here's Tim Berners-Lee posting a message to colleagues about his idea to create the World Wide Web. We wanted to picture them as they went about their business, on a day when it just so happened that their business was making history. --By Richard Lacayo