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Robert L. Franklin, the major gifts development officer in the University Development Office, said the amount raised puts FAS "on schedule...
...code, the U.S. was "Country," the atomic bomb project was "Enormoz," and Franklin Roosevelt was "Kapitan." That's according to newly released CIA documents that showthe KGBhad a sense of history as well as a rather heavy-handed sense of humor. The U.S. intelligence agency released four dozen intercepted messages from the pre-Cold War days during the mid-1940's, when the Soviets were scrambling to develop their own atom bomb. "Much to my astonishment, one finds evidence of KGB humor," said CIA Director John Deutch. "Washington is referred to as Carthage, San Francisco is Babylon and New York...
...hard to evangelize among African Americans, who currently account for about 500,000 of the church's 15.5 million members. "This is very much connected to the Southern Baptists' attempts to reach out to blacks, who share with them a very strong belief in Fundamentalism," says John Hope Franklin, the distinguished black historian. Moreover, as Lincoln notes, the antislavery resolution "costs very little in real terms. It's one thing to make a gesture by asking forgiveness for somebody else's sins. It's much more difficult to lay out a real plan in which you say we are going...
...have a hunch that I'll remain on HRT for the rest of my life," says Frida, a Chicago-area college instructor in her early 70s, who feels that estrogen gives her "more energy" and a more youthful appearance. But for Joan Israel, 64, a clinical social worker in Franklin, Michigan, fear of cancer was a deciding factor against estrogen. "So what if you get wrinkles or a little flabby, as long as you are basically healthy...
Rhythm and blues, like rock 'n' roll, was born and raised in America, with such influential exponents as Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye and Prince. Now Britain is giving rise to what might be called alternative R. and B. Performers such as Tricky, Portishead, singer Carleen Anderson, Seal and others have enlivened the accepted, sometimes constraining formats of R.-and-B. songs with offbeat rhythms and the kind of enigmatic lyrics one would usually expect from alternative rock. Says Des'ree: "I think British soul tends to be less conventional. American soul music seems to be going through a phase...