Word: civilations
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DIED. HENRY HAMPTON, 58, Emmy-winning documentary producer; from a bone-marrow ailment brought on by lung cancer; in Boston. Hampton produced 60 films, many chronicling the lives of the poor, but he was best known for the 1987 civil rights opus Eyes on the Prize. Of the series, which won a Peabody Award for excellence in journalism, he said, "A hundred civil rights stories had been told, but it was always black people being saved by whites. In Eyes, we brought our people up in history...
...raffish snake-oil salesman and a strict Baptist mother, Rockefeller grew up in several rustic hamlets in upstate New York and Ohio. He began his career as an assistant bookkeeper in a Cleveland, Ohio, commodity-brokerage house in 1855 and invested in his first refinery during the Civil...
Thernstrom said he would expect the SupremeCourt to take the case. "My guess is that theywould uphold the First Circuit Court's decision inthis case," he said. "Boston civil rights groupsmay try to persuade the Boston Public Schools fromappealing this case...
Whatever your position, the hype of an escape and the specter of a murderer lurking outside your door are more than enough to make you think about the delicate balance between your civil liberties and an inmate's. For me, returning to Texas reminded me of old times. It was good to go home and be reacquainted with guns, executions and shootouts--the sort of things that color every Texan's experience. Sujit Raman '00 is a history concentrator in Mather House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
Remedies in antitrust suits can be tricky. No one's going to jail (at least not based on this civil lawsuit), and the point of the suit isn't to get fines or money damages. If the Justice Department prevails, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson would have to rewrite the rules of engagement so that Microsoft could no longer unfairly exploit its dominant market position. And that could even mean what every Microsoft hater truly lusts for: a breakup of the company...