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...after he turned six, his life changed. His father Richard, according to Cole's uncle and records on file at the Dalton School, died in a car crash. Cole, who was in the car, hurt his ankles but escaped permanent injury, says the uncle, New York City prints dealers Sylvan Cole...
Peck says that the high cost of treating an unbuckled person injured in a car crash and the grim statistics of unbuckled fatalities make adopting the seat belt law "common sense...
...blacks would lead to the Negro's "re-evaluation by white and black alike." This re-evaluation would, in turn, facilitate the Negro's demand for civil rights and for social and economic equality. But the Harlem Renaissance was heavily dependent upon white patronage; after the stock market crash of 1929, it never regained its footing. Besides, the writers of the movement were really a tiny group, numbering perhaps 50, who, in Locke's view, represented "the Negro's cultural adolescence." Not only were their dreams of political advancement to remain unfulfilled, but in terms of formal literary achievement, they...
After a decade of smart people playing dumb (the David Letterman syndrome), it's a tonic to watch a show whose creators are unafraid to parade their erudition. MST3K, which is incorporated under the apt moniker Best Brains, Inc., is for snobs and slackers -- a crash course in popular culture, high and low. Pay attention, for without warning or footnoting you may hear allusions to Thomas Pynchon, Susan Faludi, Joseph Campbell, Jenny Holzer, Andrew Sarris or Anna Kisselgoff. A starlet bathing in a lake suggests "Fanne Foxe in a Maxfield Parrish painting." And don't worry if some...
...major system crash delayed or lost the electronic mail of students and faculty across the campus, users said...