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...seems unnecessarily uncomfortable. Let us start with a caveat. Obama is brilliant; there’s no doubt about that. But there’s also no doubt that Obama became such a prominent figure in politics because he was black. Being black for Obama was not sufficient to award him high praise, but it was necessary. The same sorts of questions could have been raised for other politicians. Sunstein writes, “Would George W. Bush be president if his last name were not Bush?” He reluctantly acknowledges necessary conditions for politicians’ success...
...MURDERED. Anna Politkovskaya, 47, award-winning correspondent for Russia's Novaya Gazeta; found shot to death in the elevator of her apartment building; in Moscow. Politkovskaya, who won praise for her intrepid coverage of Russia's war in the Caucasus, was named one of TIME's European Heroes in 2003. Though she enjoyed the respect of many on both sides of the conflict, she was hated by hard-liners and often the target of death threats; Politkovskaya was mysteriously poisoned during the 2004 Beslan school-hostage crisis while setting up negotiations with the Chechen separatist hostage-takers...
...French author; in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. His greatest work, The Last of the Just, traced one Jewish family's history from the Crusades to the death camps at Auschwitz. The novel-inspired by the murder of Schwarz-Bart's entire Polish-Jewish family by the Nazis-swas awarded France's highest literary award, the Prix Goncourt...
...bell, I'd be ringing ... if I were a lamp, I'd light"), in the 1950 Broadway hit Guys and Dolls; in Los Angeles. Undeterred by a rehearsal during which fiery composer Frank Loesser, underwhelmed by her rendition of Bell, slapped her in the face, Bigley won a Tony Award for the part...
...acre Harvard Forest is getting green—a lot of it—to promote green. The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced this week that it will award over $4.9 million to the Harvard Forest, an ecology and conservation center in Petersham, Mass. The grant is the largest in the center’s 99-year history, eclipsing the one NSF gave in 2000, the previous highest, by nearly one million dollars. The Harvard Forest will use the recent grant to support the work of over 25 scientists, and further research on issues like global warming, land use, invasive...