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Marshall went on to become one of the most important lawyers of the 20th century. He was the architect of one of America's most radical transformations: the removal of legal racism, root and branch, from the nation's leading institutions. Just as important, Marshall's personal journey--the grandson of a slave, he became the first black Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court--was a shining example of the more open society he dedicated his life to achieving...
...When Branch Rickey first met with Jackie about joining the Dodgers, he told him that for three years he would have to turn the other cheek and silently suffer all the vile things that would come his way. Believe me, it wasn't Jackie's nature to do that. He was a fighter, the proudest and most competitive person I've ever seen. This was a man who, as a lieutenant in the Army, risked a court-martial by refusing to sit in the back of a military bus. But when Rickey read to him from The Life of Christ...
Juan Carlos was an unlikely monarch. His branch of the Bourbon dynasty was impoverished and living in Rome. It was eligible for the kingship only because the direct line was tainted with the hemophilia gene inherited from Britain's Queen Victoria. Needy and apparently pliant, he thus became the acceptable heir to Francisco Franco, military dictator of the kingless kingdom of Spain. At Franco's 1975 death, Juan Carlos, above, at his 1962 wedding, took the throne. Spaniards expected little. But the King pressed the move to a constitutional monarchy. When militarists opposed it and attempted a coup...
Steve's Ice Cream became the Cahaly's first tenant--until the ice cream chain's owners decided to sell the Harvard Square branch in 1996. The Cahalys then fought a now-infamous battle with the Harvard Square Defense Fund (HSDF) to bring in another Starbucks to the Square...
Tobacman is trying to figure out how to be sure that his work in Indonesia, like his work in the homeless shelters, has a direct impact on people. One option he's considering is working at a local branch of Bank Bakayat...