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...roller-skate wheels; stilts from leftover lumber. We played hide-and-seek, Come My Good Sheep, Red Rover, marbles and jacks. We played football and baseball with our own rules and changed them if we wanted to. And what happened to us? We grew up to be the Greatest Generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

...radar. And those who did make such a choice, including myself, usually did so after beginning a different career. Only three of the 320 American Rhodes Scholars in the ’70s went directly into business from Oxford; by the late ’80s the number grew to that many each year. And, recently, more than twice as many entered that field in just one year as did in the entire decade...

Author: By Elliot F. Gerson | Title: Stolen by the Street | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...University District, home to the University of Washington, in the northeast part of the city. Another call came in suggesting that Clemmons had been spotted at Jose Rizal park in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of south Seattle. Officers were dispatched to bus and train stations. As the search grew more frantic, frustration and fury over the murders grew too. In a demonstration of restrained anguish at a midmorning press conference during the search, Lakewood police guild president Brian Wurts said emphatically, "This guy should have never been on the street." Visibly agitated, he continued, "I think this country needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cop-Killer Crisis Ends, but Tacoma's Anxiety Lingers | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...film] really grew out of the class History 1961 and was a great way of setting up the argument,” said Ferguson, who holds a joint appointment at the Business School, in an interview on Saturday. “That really helped me to write...

Author: By Linda Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ferguson Wins Emmy for Documentary | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

Pertile—who grew up in a small village between Padua and Venice in Northeastern Italy—is also a professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and has published widely within the field of Dante scholarship...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: After Ten Years, Eliot Masters Plan To Depart | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

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