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...show and consulted on almost every episode during the show’s eight-year run, fine-tuning its educational message with his insights into child psychology. He reworked the show’s script to give it the human appeal and positive message that made the show a landmark...
Twenty-four years ago the decision in the landmark affirmative action case, the University of California Board of Regents v. Bakke, was handed down. California, it seems, has always been a magnet for affirmative action lawsuits. Bakke said “quotas” were unconstitutional, but that diversity was “a constitutionally permissible goal for an institution of higher education...
Slowly but surely, Bush and Putin are erasing the lingering vestiges of Cold War hostility. This landmark reduction in arms stockpiles shows their commitment to maintaining a lasting friendship between the two countries...
...Consider three landmark films of the first half of the 20th century. The first "great" movie: the Civil War epic "The Birth of a Nation"(1915), whose blacks were cringing or lazy or venal or rapacious, and whose heroes were white men in white sheets. The first "talkie": "The Jazz Singer"(1927), with the white showman Al Jolson singing "Mammy" in blackface. The biggest hit of its era: "Gone With the Wind"(1939), which romanticizes slave-owning Southerners and for whom the only good Negroes were the ones who stayed with their owners after...
...Omen The longer infants are breast-fed, the higher they are likely to score on intelligence tests as adults, reports a landmark joint U.S.-Danish study...