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...many of the Australian soldiers who served in Iraq in early 2005, the bloody mayhem they were embroiled in was something they hoped to forget. But last week a landmark lawsuit in Australia brought it all back at a time when many are struggling to deal with the mental trauma of their war service...
...TIME:Hillary Clinton made the point that it took Lyndon B. Johnson to implement some landmark civil rights laws. Looking back, will we credit, say, George W. Bush similarly, for appointing more women to senior and cabinet-level jobs than any of his predecessors...
...respect of workers and Big Three executives alike. The UAW's deep concessions during the economically challenging years of his tenure angered many. But the Scottish-born labor leader, who got his start as a local leader in the '40s, won more than he lost, including landmark comprehensive health care and uncapped cost-of-living allowances. In 1979 his impassioned lobbying was credited with securing the $1.5 billion in federal loan guarantees that rescued Chrysler from bankruptcy. Fraser...
Admirers called the civil rights activist an "icon," a "spark plug" and a "mother figure." For Johnnie Carr, Rosa Parks' childhood friend who helped engineer the landmark bus boycott that led to the desegregation of public transportation in Montgomery, Ala., history-making was not the point. "We were thinking about conditions and discrimination," she said. As a member turned president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (she succeeded the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.), she organized car pools during the boycott and enrolled her son in the all-white Montgomery school system in a legal test case. Carr...
...Certainly, Harvard is right to protect the interests of its campus as a historical landmark. As the oldest college green in America, there is good reason why hot dog vendors and tennis courts remain absent from the Yard. But Harvard’s precious few acres are there for students, not for tourists—and they have been the site of endless instances of public discourse throughout the centuries. Certainly chalk is no more foreign than black steel trash cans or Poland Springs delivery trucks, both of which enjoy free access. Chalk does not disrupt the equilibrium between artifact...