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...said, "this is Medgar in his casket." The photograph showed the exhumed body of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who had been shot and killed in 1963; even in his coffin he wore a gold N.A.A.C.P. pin on his lapel. Evers had been taken from his grave, and his widow had been called to testify because white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith was on trial for his murder...
...threat of a Russian invasion seems a distant memory for most Americans, for Alaskans, who make up 0.002 percent of Harvard undergraduates, it is very real. Vladimir Zhirinovsky may seem like a joke to the residents of the 49 other states, but some Alaskan residents say he represents a grave threat to their state...
...biggest reason why people go into the private sector is because it's a cradle-to-grave insurance system," says Levin. The Law School is a "mill churning out corporate lawyers...
Given the fiscal and social costs of institutionalizing an underclass from cradle to grave, it may be worth calculating the cost of such support. For now, however, there is a symbolic triumph in preventing children from being written off the moment their umbilical cords are cut. And something more than symbolism is occurring in Holland's apartment in Washington's dangerous Northeast neighborhood. A crib stands by the front door; its tenant is holding out her little arms and smiling widely, eyes as big as chestnuts. Holland scoops her up. "I love being a mother now," she says...
...sidewalks. Since the disappointed faces of those whose bootless feet a momentary miscalculation has left sloppily soaked is a common sight, we may deduce that such knowledge is rarely perfect. Tip O'Neill (the man we have to thank for our undulating brick walkways) must be laughing from his grave...