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...Communications, who called the sale a "bittersweet moment" for the privately owned family business, which launched the cable channel back in 1982. Initially derided as the brunt of jokes, the forecast focused channel became profitable within four years and soon had established itself as a media category killer. Sheryl Crow named a song after it in 2002, and today it has an estimated 85 million viewers, many of whom are more than happy to tune in numerous times each day. It has also successfully adapted with the times: the channel's free, ad-supported weather service for cell phones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Weather Channel's Real Worth | 7/7/2008 | See Source »

...Indian reservations, a crucial bloc that helped narrowly defeat incumbent GOP Sen. Conrad Burns in 2006. Both expressed support for improved federal-tribal relations and medical care. Clinton visited the Flathead Reservation, and daughter Chelsea met Thursday with a group of state tribal leaders. Obama was adopted into the Crow Tribe by the Black Eagle family just before he spoke to 3,000 supporters at the reservation's Veterans Park a few miles from the site of Custer's Last Stand. He's hoping that Montana will be his opponent's last stand as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Montana: The Democrats' Last Stand | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...101st Airborne were escorting nine black students into the all-white Little Rock Central High School on Sept. 25, 1957, media worldwide—including The Harvard Crimson—were documenting the beginning of southern school integration. But even as the world was watching intently as Jim Crow was being dismantled, issues of race remained far-removed from the lives of average Harvard students...

Author: By Brittany M Llewellyn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Race and the Ivy | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...sponsoring the tour. “Not all laws are just laws.” The “Right to Serve” tour’s method of protest is modeled after the sit-ins of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. “Jim Crow and ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ are equally morally reprehensible,” Reitan said. “The manner [in which] we confront them should be the same.” The group hopes to encourage Republican Senator Susan...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Touring To Protest ‘Don’t Ask’ | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...rezoning augurs wholesale changes, including luxury office towers and apartments. Much of Harlem is still comparatively poor--the median household income hovers around $27,000--and Barron suspects that these gleaming additions will drive out locals unable to foot the rising rents. "Housing policies are the new Jim Crow policies for the 21st century," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Harlem | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

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