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...General Colin Powell, Former Secretary of State "ABC" The spirited lyrics, the dancing and the joy of watching these five handsome, clean-cut youngsters pouring their hearts out moved me then and moves me now. It was the early '70s, a time of war, a time of political turmoil, a time of the counterculture and domestic unrest. They made us smile with their freshness and their cute 'fros. We tapped our feet, felt good watching them, and our cares left for a few minutes...
...wasn't any useful information preserved in the crash. Over the next few years, he developed a prototype for a flight-memory recorder that would track basic information like altitude and direction. Encased in asbestos and metal, the data and sound recorder was nicknamed the "black box," after the general term for a seemingly magical gadget that no one knows how to work...
...Dutch, in general, seem to take stereotypes to the extreme. I’ve learned from other “allochtoon” how insulting such a question actually is here. “It implies you don’t belong,” one woman, who is originally from South Korea, told...
...temporary replacement for former Law School Dean Elena Kagan, who stepped down after being confirmed as U.S. Solicitor General, Jackson took an unusually active role in shaping the Law School during his brief three month deanship. Kagan departed in March without making any budgetary announcements to the Law School community, and due to the tight budget approval timeline, the decision fell to Jackson to move forward with involuntary workforce cuts...
...roll back reform have intensified in the past six months, symbolized by the return of mass-mobilization development strategies that echo the regime's policies of the 1950s. "The whole country and all the people," Kim Jong Il was quoted saying in a January editorial, "should launch a general offensive dynamically, sounding the advance for opening the gate to a great, prosperous and powerful nation...