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...with $3,320 for the rest of the Caribbean and Latin America. Drug traffickers have also targeted Haiti. DEA officials believe as much as 15 percent of the cocaine in the U.S. may be coming through it capital, Port-au-Prince. There is growing speculation that former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide could profit from the chaos: A total collapse may encourage his supporters to bring him back to power...
...architect of the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights movement, and throughout his life brilliantly fought against racial discrimination and for the full participation of blacks in American society. He conceived of the Encyclopedia Africana, a comprehensive history of the African diaspora. He was a staunch opponent (with Bertrand Russell) of the use of nuclear weapons. He published dozens of books and thousands of pivotal essays. Who could possibly have done more than he to redefine American democracy over 60 years of the 20th century? --Henry Louis Gates Jr., Chair of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University...
...more than 50 books penned over 74 years, Bertrand Russell set the terms of the debate in logic and philosophy in the first part of the century--most notably with Principia Mathematica (1910-13), written with philosopher Alfred North Whitehead...
...young engineering student in England, Wittgenstein saw the hope of the new mathematical logic, and rushed to Cambridge to become the protege of Bertrand Russell, whose monumental Principia Mathematica (1913), written with Alfred North Whitehead, was an attempt to reduce all mathematics to logic. Wittgenstein's first book, published in England in 1922, the even more grandly titled Tractatus Logico-philosophicus, went even further, and was thought by him, and by some of his admirers, to have brought philosophy to an end, its key problems definitively solved once and for all. Some "philosophical" propositions could be readily expressed and evaluated...
...Publication of Volume I of Principia Mathematica, a three-volume work by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead that attempts to link mathematics and logic...