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...safer to travel to the slums of Detroit or the suburbs of Tel Aviv? How about the Indian side of Kashmir versus the posh campus of the American University of Beirut? According to Harvard’s Office of International Programs (OIP), students are free to visit the formers, but Israel and Lebanon are still...
...shotgunned twice on the evening of Aug. 8, 1905. His wife pulled the trigger. She had mistaken him, she claimed, for an intruder. Three weeks later, amid rumors about his parents' marital squabbles, infidelity and murder, the red-haired 18-year-old fought his way into the Detroit Tigers' lineup. But he saw no reason to rejoice. "I only thought," he recalled, "father won't know...
...races for mayor, the Incumbency Party captured the majority nearly everywhere. New York City's flamboyant Ed Koch joined Fiorello La Guardia (1934-45) and Robert Wagner (1954-65) as the Big Apple's only other three-term mayor in this century. Detroit's Coleman Young was re-elected to his fourth term and Cleveland's Republican Mayor George Voinovich was returned for his third term in a predominantly Democratic town. All three cities are enjoying economic revivals. Incumbent mayors also won easily in Minneapolis, Seattle, Phoenix, Pittsburgh and Hartford...
Mead peels off these labels and traces Louis' career from the early days in a Detroit ghetto to the sad years of deterioration. Pugilism came easily to Louis, but he was not a natural celebrity. His advisers remembered that the previous black champion, Jack Johnson, had ruined his career with temperamental outbursts and interracial romances. Accordingly, they merchandised Louis' innate dignity and sold him as a shy family man given to choice utterances like "He can run, but he can't hide" and, during World War II, "We are on God's side." The champion did not disappoint his public...
...frustrated consumers, though, were calling the whole episode a turkey. When they tried to reserve discount seats, they discovered that some flights were already booked by customers paying regular or supersaver fares. Griped a ticket agent who works in Detroit for one of American's rivals: "Seats to all the really good places are sold out anyway. American may have five or six routes where tickets hadn't been selling, and they wanted to fill those planes." One airline that has abstained so far from the Thanksgiving bargains is People Express. The discount carrier said it was busy enough...