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...seat Ebbets Field. What those present saw was a piece of history in nine innings: a black man played in a major league game for the first time. Of course, Jackie Robinson didn't break the color line in baseball all by himself. He needed Branch Rickey to do it. The president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers was the one with the will and the power to upend the idiotic myopia of the sport's other sachems. (Were they afraid that blacks couldn't play baseball or afraid that they could play it too well?) Rickey had been...
...deal with Ridge's rainbow of alarms the same way I handle every other piece of information from this Administration: with extreme skepticism. President Bush will manipulate the alert level as needed to advance his two key goals: centralizing power in the Executive Branch and rewarding the loyal elite. I've been at alert-level red since December 2000 when the Supreme Court decided that Bush would be President. PAUL R. WARD Redlands, Calif...
This larger effort was coordinated last year when the University administration’s information technology branch organized a meeting and offered preliminary funding to jump-start wireless projects at the various schools...
...early. But students worry that the requirement to obtain the signature of the instructor of every course they wish to add or drop during “shopping week”—preregistration’s promised liberal add/drop period—would limit their freedom to branch out and try unconventional classes...
Contreras, who is a co-chair of the Somerville High School branch of Atrevete, a Latino youth conference, said she strives to foster non-violence by teaching mediation to elementary school students...