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Next year she’ll be doing more studying than pliés as a Harvard Extension School pre-med student. But today she’s living her four-year-old dream to dance on the stage of the Wang Center, a Boston landmark that recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. O’Leary is enthused about performing on the same stage as the esteemed Boston Ballet company. “I can appreciate how much more magnificent it is to perform in front of a million people,” she says en route to the Wang...
...investigation—which extended to two other Harvard faculty members—became the landmark case for government attempts to root out subversion in American education...
CRUMBLED. THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN, the stern granite profile, which has for generations been the state's most recognizable landmark, carved naturally by a glacier 30,000 years ago into New Hampshire's Cannon Mountain; as a result of erosion, after decades of efforts to preserve it; in Franconia Notch State Park. The 40-ft. face has appeared on license plates, postage stamps and the state quarter. New Hampshire officials are debating whether to restore the monument...
Once a social taboo, love across the color line is becoming increasingly common. The number of interracial marriages in the U.S. has leaped almost 1,000% since 1967, when a landmark Supreme Court decision, Loving v. Virginia, voided state antimiscegenation laws that forbid unions between the races. Today there are more than 2 million interracial marriages, accounting for about 5% of all U.S. marriages, and almost half a million of them are between blacks and whites...
...special three-judge panel struck down several key provisions of the landmark Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act. The act, popularly known as McCain-Feingold, closes loopholes in existing laws that allow wealthy special interest groups to spend unlimited sums of money on political candidates. McCain-Feingold is an important step towards a more democratic political process, where the overwhelming influence of special interest money is not allowed to drown out the voices of voters. The Supreme Court should overturn the panel’s wrongheaded ruling...