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...India that supports fewer people than can fit comfortably into Yankee Stadium. Everywhere, he finds an ingenious effort to utilize geography for profit. He has a fine appreciation for the weight of that harsh immensity on the Canadian psyche, so different from the buoyancy imparted to Americans by their frontier. Along the southern strip, where most Canadians live, Malcolm discovers a culture of impressive accomplishment. He cites litanies of artistic, theatrical and literary figures but notices that Canada begins to resent its heroes as they gain foreign fame. "There is something in the old Canadian mind that doesn't like...
...vivid images relayed by the Viking landers in the mid-1970s, Mars to most people remains a planet of the imagination, as unlikely a home for humans as it is for diminutive green men. To a surprising number of prominent scientists and politicians, however, it is the next frontier, a new world to be tamed and colonized. Gathering in Washington last week for a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz space linkup were such luminaries as Astronomer Carl Sagan, former Moonwalker and U.S. Senator Harrison Schmitt, Astronaut Sally Ride, Hawaii Senator Spark Matsunaga and NASA Chief James...
...memory of Adowa poisoned relations between the two countries. Finally, a bloody border incident in 1934 on the frontier between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland provided the incendiary device. Ethiopia protested to the League of Nations, an act, suggests Mockler, that goaded the vainglorious Duce into war. On Oct. 3, 1935, 100,000 Italian troops began their invasion...
Alaska Klub Co-Heads Rennell and Leif E. Fenno ’07 say they hope to “bring some frontier spirit” to Harvard. Post-victory, the Men’s Rugby Team had another frontier to face—the first-prize hangover that would be inevitable after consuming their spoils, 1049 ounces of beer...
...within America, with a singular history separate to and, at times, oppositional to the dominant American value system. The black struggle in America, King eventually recognized—as W.E.B. DuBois, Paul Robeson, and Malcolm X had before him—was important not because it represented the last frontier for the extension of American liberalism and democracy, but because the black political tradition represents the most expansive and comprehensive vision of common humanity, social justice, and anti-militarism that modernity has had to offer...