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Besides, the American civil rights movement wasn't just Martin Luther King Jr.; it was also Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks. As for nonviolent social activists and leaders--What about Jane Addams, Petra Kelly, Dorothy Day, Aung San Suu Kyi? And why flatter Lenin by leaving out two of his staunchest ideological opponents, the Polish-German socialist Rosa Luxemburg and the American anarchist Emma Goldman...
...knew I was in trouble a few nights later when Ella and I were blissfully kung-fuing away in a martial-arts game. My wily six-year-old was trying to pull an unlikely Peking Pile Driver (as if I were born yesterday!), and I was this far from executing a perfect Triple-Death Windmill Kick that would have punted her out of the arena when the phone rang. "It's someone from work for you, Dada," she said, in that adorable, squeaky baby voice. "Hurry up so I can kick your ass!" My wife looked at me. "Educational...
Wouldn't it be cool if there were an electronic diary that you could write to and it would write back?" asked my brilliant eight-year-old, Zoe. Thus began another Mr. Peabody Night in the Quittner household, with me, Zoe and Ella, 6, cruising the Web in search of infotainment. We piled into the Mac, slipped out onto the Infobahn and, faster than you can say, "Open the pod doors, Hal," found ourselves in the company of Julia...
...America Online). She is also spellbinding. Indeed, our conversation with Julia was so realistic my girls, convinced that a carbon-based life-form was doing the real typing, insisted the whole thing was a scam. "Do you like cats?" Julia asked us. "Nope," I typed back, nudging Zoe and Ella to watch as I tripped up the primitive program. "I like pizza." "Great," replied Julia. "I go crazy for pizza." Doh! Next, Ella, the bawdiest member of her first-grade class (she can sing virtually any Green Day song, four-letter-word for word), pecked out an unprintable suggestion. Julia...
...sung Porter, of course, performing Too Darn Hot in Jewel Unplugged on MTV. She also polished her singing style while listening to what she calls her Bible, the classic album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook. But only last month did she learn that Porter was white. "Whew!" she said. "I'm learning minutiae. It's killing me." And it's only been a couple of years since she discovered it was the Beatles who sang I Want to Hold Your Hand--which she liked. When another rider at the stable tells her she was born on the same...