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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...match for Henry Kissinger in a debate over the Vietnam War, but at the 1995 Gerald R. Ford Foundation board meeting, the former Secretary of State indeed lost a heated argument on the subject to one Fred Meijer of Grand Rapids. At issue was an 18-step metal ladder, utterly unremarkable except that in April 1975 thousands of desperate South Vietnamese, fleeing capture by the invading North Vietnamese for freedom in the U.S., had clambered up its sturdy steps onto the roof of the U.S. embassy in Saigon and into American helicopters perched there. To Meijer, the gray ladder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Ladders And Letters | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

...Anderson. Moreover, a world of teachers dispensing knowledge and guidance has been reduced to a single white professor who is more interested in keeping knowledge from his black students than sharing it with them. The characters in Kennedy's play-intelligent and capable African-Americans trying to climb a ladder towards success specifically designed to keep them down-live in a world apart. A stark, empty, isolated world...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Murder in the Academy | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

...which had one engine, one ladder truck and its two rescue companies on the scene, began to take gas readings from buildings along Plympton Street...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gas Leak Forces Adams Residents to Evacuate | 4/7/2000 | See Source »

...dollar offer in The Crimson again. But, it remains to be seen what long-term effect the gold rush will have on those swept up in it. How hard it will be to hunker down in an entry-level job and begin to climb the career ladder slowly. After all, we will remember, there was once a time when employers doled out BMW's like Christmas fruitcakes...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: When the New Economy Ages | 4/7/2000 | See Source »

...things dotcom. Just about everyone who wanted to got through the door--this time. But if you've made a bundle in NASDAQ stocks and are concerned about their increasing volatility, consider protecting what you've made. Here's how, starting with some basics and moving up the ladder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware the Cult | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

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