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...return to their African roots, Douglass stayed put. Poet Langston Hughes grieved in verse that "(America never was America to me) ... (There's never been equality for me,/ Nor freedom in this 'homeland of the free')." But his lament is couched in a poem whose title, like its author, yearns for acceptance: Let America Be America Again...
...least a modest reduction in food prices. "As always, if you take [all the world's] food and divide it by the world's population, there's more than enough for everyone," says Steve Wiggins, an agricultural economist at the U.K.-based think tank Overseas Development Institute, and author of a recent report, Rising food prices: a global crisis. It's just a question of how to get it to the people who need it most...
...DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, Pulitzer-prizewinning author and historian
Prominent Financial Analyst Peter Lynch spoke about his investing principles and personal experiences to a packed room in Emerson yesterday. Throughout his talk, Lynch, author of the best-seller One Up On Wall Street, emphasized that investors should make sure to understand the company’s background “story”. “Before you invest, you should write down three reasons why you’re buying stock,” he said. “The fact that it’s going up doesn’t count.” Lynch gained...
...Starting Tuesday, a group of conservative activists led by Floyd Brown, author of the famous Willie Horton ad used so effectively against Michael Dukakis in 1988, will begin a campaign to tar Obama as weak on crime and terrorism, a strategy that aims to upend Obama's relatively strong reputation among Republican voters...