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...worldwide, mixed Southern with Greek, pyrotechnics with Pindar, avant-garde with antebellum, pickup trucks with riverboats, the gargantuan with the precious. Like Atlanta, it desperately wanted to be liked by everybody, and it succeeded. The Call to the Nations, which opened the show, recalled both the French-Canadian Cirque du Soleil, which was a creative consultant, as well as a Brazilian samba school. Yet the two songs were written by two distinctly American composers: Summon the Heroes by Academy Award winner John Williams and The Call to the Nations by Mickey Hart, the drummer for The Grateful Dead...
...onto something. In recent weeks, he has freely wielded the powerful pen of executive directives, addressing everything from educational TV, to gun sales to minors to the notion of asking school districts to require school uniforms, without actually asking Congress to fund new programs. Wednesday's topic du jour: free cell phones for neighborhood crime watch groups. The White House has announced that the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association will contribute 50,000 cell phones pre-programmed to dial 911, along with free cellular air time, to the nation's 20,000 community policing programs to help them combat crime. TIME...
...best marketing tool would be a medal for Gostigian. In 1994 he was ranked as high as No. 3 in the world. But this past January, his friend and mentor, Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz, was killed. And the man accused of killing Schultz, John du Pont, an heir to the chemical fortune, helped start and finance Gostigian's career. In the wake of the tragedy, Gostigian slipped in the rankings. "It's been tough," he says. "But in Atlanta, I just want to put together a great performance in honor of Dave." --By Lawrence Mondi...
...Daniels '71 is a fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research. During the past two years, he taught a course in the Expository Writing Program on John F. Kennedy...
...Sociology Christopher Winship's class on poverty. Unfortunately, such perspectives are difficult to find at Harvard. This University will not fully embody its motto, veritas, until it "found[s] Right on righteousness and Truth on the unhampered search for Truth," principles of education that were advocated by W.E.B. Du Bois. Only then will Harvard graduates be prepared to be the bold and unflinching moral leaders that America so desperately needs...