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...case against reality TV is mainly moral--and there's a point to it. It's hard to defend the deception of Joe Millionaire--which set up 20 women to court construction worker Evan Marriott by telling them he was a multimillionaire--as hilarious as its fool's-gold chase can be. Even the show's Potemkin Croesus contends that producers hid the show's premise from him until the last minute. "The day before I left for France, I signed confidentiality papers which said what the show was about," Marriott tells TIME. "At that point, could I really back...
Antebellum America was a world of constant low-intensity warfare between abolitionists and slavers in hot pursuit of their "property." The rising tide of escapees led to cross-border raids by Southern slaveholders who were emboldened by federal laws that gave them the right to chase runaways into free states. Hired slave hunters prowled the riverbanks, hoping to catch blacks and drag them south for cash. When no runaways were available, free-black citizens--there were 200,000 in the Northern states by 1860--could be clubbed and hustled across the river into captivity. Pro-slavery Northerners destroyed printing presses...
...part of his work in the department of Fine Arts, giving the introductory course in the History of Modern Art and a half-course in Italian Painting. The course in Ancient Architecture, temporarily reduced from a whole to a half-course, will be given by Professor G. H. Chase, Chairman of the Division of Fine Arts and John E. Hudson, Professor of Classical Archaeology. As a practical archaeologist, experienced excavator, and well-known teacher of the Classics, he is peculiarly fitted for the exposition and interpretation of Classical Architecture...
These changes involve the disappearance of a number of familiar names in the School. Professors Edgell and Chase take over the courses previously given by Mr. C. Howard Walker, whose lectures have long been a source of inspiration to the Harvard students of Architecture. Mr. Walker's extensive practice will consume his time, but it is hoped and expected that means will be found by which he will not entirely lose connection with the School. Another loss will be that of Mr. William C. Perry, '05, for several years part time instructor in Design. He very competently filled the vacancy...
TIME: To what extent will the dividend chase drive up stock prices? Is this the market's next big story...