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...then the dean of students, responded to a special charge that he received to address race relations with a program called “Harvard Discovery.” At the core of the one-day exercises was a booklet of readings ranging from Emerson to Henry Louis Gates Jr., now the Fletcher University Professor. Its purpose, Epps said, was “to take us from diversity to unity as a class and as a College...
Humorist Roy Blount Jr. is one of America's most prolific authors and a regular panelist on NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. His latest book, Alphabet Juice is quasi dictionary/glossary of the English language, peppered with literary references, cultural oddities and hilarious musings on why we choose the words we do. TIME talked to Blount about the most literary band in America, why he advises investing $20,000 in mass transit and what Sarah Palin might mean for the future of politics...
Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld may have helped ignite the financial apocalypse, but consider this: in 2006, through his Kathy and Richard S. Fuld Jr. Family Foundation, Fuld also gave away more than $5 million. The Lehman Brothers Foundation gave another $39 million last year to charity, either directly or by enabling the charitable giving of its workers - many of whom are now unemployed or considerably less secure about their financial futures...
They each had something else in common. Attorney J.L. (that was his given name) Chestnut Jr., who died Sept. 30 at the age of 77, represented them all. Unlike some lawyers who sought to be more famous, J.L. was content working behind the scenes to eradicate an unfair system that was the source of much discontent...
...mean the official campaign paraphernalia. I'm talking about the wares hawked here in Harlem, the black tees sold in sizes up to 5XL, with Barack Obama's head slightly out of proportion. I bought mine on Lenox and 125th--a mustard number with Martin Luther King Jr. and Obama juxtaposed underneath the words ALPHA and OMEGA. That's when I smelled the air and understood that Obama was running not simply to be President but also to be the next head chiseled on the face of the imaginary black Mount Rushmore. That's when I knew, for the first...