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Dec. 17, 1953: The Federal Communications Commission approves color television, but the new technology does not reach Harvard until 1956, when Lowell House residents are treated to the College’s first color television in their common room.
Snagging an FM license wasn’t easy, however, and the transformation required quite a bit of legal work that took up most of the 1956-57 academic year. In February 25, 1957—a full year after Kalmus’s announcement—the Federal Communications...
Joe Klein referred to Congressman Ron Paul's "singular moment of weirdness" as "proposing that al-Qaeda attacked on Sept. 11 because the U.S. had been messing around in the Middle East, bombing Iraq" [May 28]. Klein assumed the reader would see this perfectly reasonable notion as weird when it...
But with video images of that shocking use of force at the May Day immigration rally broadcast around the globe and transmitted widely over the Internet, Bratton suddenly finds himself working hard to make sure his record of reform and chances for a second term at the helm of the...
Bratton is usually up to those sorts of challenges because he is a shrewd politician, and, as police chiefs go, a charismatic figure. (Several years ago he was even touted as a New York mayoral candidate, and he ultimately left the NYPD in part because Giuliani thought he was stealing...