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...Liberal Union, a student chapter of Americans for Democratic Action, had almost 300 members, but the Young Progressives had difficulty simply recruiting the 25 members they needed to be an official student group...
...chapter-size biographies reveal, three of the four photographers not only died in a combat zone but grew up in one. The peerless Burrows, who lived through London's Blitz, would surprise young U.S. Army photographers he worked alongside in Vietnam by always bringing pajamas to the front. The fearless Huet, who grew up in Nazi-occupied France, once returned to Saigon bleeding from a shrapnel wound but famously dropped off his film at his agency's office before seeking treatment. As a boy, Shimamoto watched American B-29 incendiary bombers weave through flak above nighttime Tokyo (a "beautiful sight...
Born in 1920, Angell is now one of those senior citizens, old enough to have bumped into a retired Babe Ruth on the street wearing his (Ruth's, that is) signature camel's-hair coat and cap. But in the autobiographical chapter "Early Innings," Angell allows us to glimpse the moment when he, a control-challenged junior-high screwball hurler, gave up his big-league dreams and "took up smoking and irony in self-defense." He must have outgrown the irony too--otherwise how could he describe with such tender eloquence a forgettable player, onetime New York Mets shortstop Tony...
They also met with black ministers, the local NAACP chapter and the Latino chamber of commerce, who gave them “consistent feedback that change did happen” in the district, according to committee member Joseph G. Grassi, noting that the achievement gap between minority and white students had closed by 30 to 40 percent...
...factory workers in one of the largest labor demonstrations in five decades of communist rule. Included in the indictment were charges that Yao and Xiao listened to the Voice of America and Radio France International, and discussed their ideas with foreign journalists. They were also accused of forming a chapter of the banned China Democracy Party, a charge they deny. "We'll appeal, of course," says lawyer Mo. "But without significant international pressure, the chances of winning look awfully small." Even in these strange days of SARS, some things in China can be counted on not to change...