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...mood perfectly. At the time, the city's parks could be rundown and even sinister, especially at night. Hoving's answer was to bring in crowds and bustle through "Hoving Happenings." He sponsored massive events, like a party for 20,000 children in Central Park's big Sheep Meadow and a public gathering there to watch a meteor shower. "Times have changed," he said. "We're going to open it up and have a little bit of - how shall we call it - Central Park...
...early big shows, however, did almost scuttle his career. As a way to bring African-American audiences into the museum, Hoving decided in 1967 to mount "Harlem on My Mind," a multimedia documentary survey of the history of Harlem, which opened two years later. The very idea offended people who couldn't understand what a historical show was doing at an art museum. That bad reaction got worse when the show's catalog turned out to contain an essay by a young black woman that included anti-Semitic remarks. In the uproar that followed, Hoving nearly lost...
...does not foresee any more big layoffs in the U.S, even though the company posted a net loss of $1.2 billion during the third quarter, including special charges related to the shutdown of more than 2,000 dealerships across the U.S., support for suppliers and special employee-attrition programs at GM operations in Europe and Australia. Despite the bankruptcy, GM also owes $17 billion to governments in the U.S., Canada and Europe that supported the company during the crisis last winter. The $17 billion debt does not include $3.2 billion in notes or preferred stock that GM also owes...
...course Nowak doesn’t make a big deal of these plans. Just a small town girl living in an African world...
...this simple luxury represented a more troubling aspect of her transition to college. “There’s a big disparity between where I come from and where most of the kids here come from,” she explains. While Lam feels that she received a strong education, she says many of her high school classmates fell through the cracks of the public school system...