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...Spain's dictator Francisco Franco decades ago was "bad" and "may not be worthy of sport." The same day, in a rehearsal of an attempt to outdo the melodrama of 1992 in Barcelona -- when an archer ignited the Olympic flame with a streaking arrow -- Norwegian ski jumper Ole Gunnar Fidjestol sought to soar down the slope and vault into the air as one of the final bearers of the Olympic flame on its journey to Lillehammer. But he crashed askew, incurring a concussion and dropping out of his place of honor. The privilege went to Stein Gruben, who brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finally, the Olympic Games | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

MORE THAN 25 years have passed since K. Gunnar Myrdal first wrote of the "American dilemma"--the conflict between America's democratic and egalitarian ideals and its treatment of racial minorities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Continuing Dilemma | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...address was the 57th annual Edwin L.Godkin Lecture. The lecture series was endowed in1903 by the founding editor of The Nation.Past speakers have included other former Harvardpresidents and outstanding thinkers and writers,including Bok's father-in-law, Gunnar Mydral...

Author: By John L. Johnson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bok Speech Marks First Return Since Retirement in '91 | 4/7/1992 | See Source »

...Gunnar Trumbull...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Wu, | Title: Incumbents, Divestment Win Big In Elections | 10/6/1990 | See Source »

Only in this context is it possible to appreciate fully the importance of the publication last week of A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society, a landmark 588-page study by the National Research Council that strives to update reports by the 1968 Kerner commission and Gunnar Myrdal. Edited by black economist Gerald David Jaynes and white sociologist Robin M. Williams Jr., A Common Destiny represents the nation's most definitive report card on race relations in 20 years. And America has flunked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unfinished Business | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

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