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Eugene F. Rivers III still chuckles at what he says was his best quip ever--the time he called Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "the emcee at the Cotton Club on the Charles...
...program makes the grade in end-of-the-year evaluations set up by the Markle Foundation, which sponsors the program along with the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Studies, it will expand nationwide...
...have come exclusively from the private sector, where individual companies and corporations have taken it upon themselves to explore new alternatives. In the past year, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Dow Chemical, IBM and Johnson & Johnson have all made (and followed through with) pledges to cut their production of carbon dioxide; recently, Du Pont, Shell and others joined in a voluntary plan to reduce the wasteful use of energy and produce cleaner products. And just last week, BP and Ford donated $20 million to Princeton University to develop a technique called carbon sequestration, which could potentially stow carbon emissions safely within the earth...
...world's major music centers from New York to London to Vienna, as well as some of the most prestigious music festivals including Tanglewood, Aspen and Ravinia. In addition, their recordings have won awards and honors including the Gramophone Record of the Year, three Grand Prix du Disques and a Grammy nomination...
...politically, none of this matters. Filter software has become the cause du jour because it lays to rest nagging questions of content and responsibility--it is just a cover for our actual confusion, a whited sepulcher concealing the ugly fact that society hasn't yet dealt with the Internet's implications. In the old days, a flawed culture could be healed by dragging a bunch of network executives up to Capitol Hill and giving them a stern talking-to; through the democratized medium of the Internet, content can be distributed worldwide after it has been reviewed by only one moderator...