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...said he acted in the context of the Lampoon's rivalry with The Crimson, which dates back to the Crimson presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...might go down in response to higher prices, but precisely the wrong group would be affected: as usual, the poor. Do we really want to fall back on the situation of the early 20th century where electricity was a luxury of the rich? There was a reason that President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 undertook the Rural Electrification Project. He believed that electricity was not simply an amusement but rather a tool that could improve the standard of living of the American people...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt '40 died of a cerebral hemorrhage toward the end of World War II. And, most recently, President John F. Kennedy '40 was assassinated while in office. Of course, Reagan disrupted the trend by surviving his 1981 assassination attempt, only 69 days into office. The bullet lodged itself within a centimeter of his aorta, and only modern medicine saved him. (Instead, his theatrical grace and wit during the assassination incident caused his popularity to soar...
Before Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale, there was her Disappearing Acts. Can ambitious singer Zora (Sanaa Lathan) find love with Franklin, the construction worker who fixed up her gorgeous Brooklyn brownstone? Since the soft-hearted hardhat is a statue-buff Wesley Snipes, well, three guesses. As money and personality troubles set in, however, it turns out Zora exhaled too soon. Like many renovations, Acts is most attractive on its glossy surface; too often the subtext crashes clumsily through the drywall. But the leads do hammer charismatic performances out of the material...
...role models in corporate America. Today, while some 200 black men and women have reached the upper echelons of FORTUNE 500 companies--up from a handful a decade ago--only two African Americans have ever been named CEO of any of these firms: Kenneth Chenault of American Express and Franklin Raines of Fannie Mae. Prominent blacks like Maytag's Lloyd Ward have resigned or been relieved of their corporate commands. In the Internet world, the minuscule number of black chief execs was prominently diminished last month when Robert Knowling was ousted as CEO of broadband provider Covad...