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...through Mississippi where they met with "scathing" stares when they held hands in a Wal-Mart. And while they and couples like them work on narrowing the divisions between groups in America, one couple at a time, their parents fret about their challenges. While Ricks' mother Loeida, a school librarian in LaPlace, La., gamely asserts, "My parents didn't choose for me, and I don't choose for my children," Ricks' father Thomas, a career military man, is less sanguine. "I'm a child of the '60s," he says, "and I remember segregation and the marches. Yes, things have changed...
...gauge the impact of the AbioCor artificial heart, you don't have to look much further than Robert Tools. The 59-year-old grandfather and retired technical librarian had suffered from congestive heart failure for two years; by last June he was getting ready to die. His liver and kidneys had nearly quit, and he could hardly muster the strength to lift his head off the pillow. His doctors ruled that he was too ill for a heart transplant. They gave him less than one month to live...
Harvard Explained thanks Jeffrey Horrell, Associate Librarian of Harvard College for Collections. Something about Harvard that you want explained? Email fm@thecrimson.com...
...terrorist support networks in Germany and Britain. Those scooped up included a few who appeared to have links to the hijackers, and some who just had the wrong sort of look at the wrong sort of time. In DeFuniak Springs, a small town in the Florida panhandle, a local librarian remembered that the hijackers had used library computers to book flight reservations, saw a man from the Middle East seated at a keyboard and called the police. (The man was guilty of nothing.) Those driving into Manhattan were stuck in lines of the sort usually seen only in Bangkok...
Leave it to Oprah to start a revolutionary American trend: reading. Chicagoans are now reading en masse Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. And former librarian Laura Bush is using the clout of her new job to get a few notable authors to read out loud in Washington. As host of the first National Book Festival, this weekend, the First Lady will oversee an all-day affair on the Capitol lawn with readings, music, food and lessons on bookbinding. Whom has Bush picked as opening acts for this bookfest? John Adams biographer David McCullough, novelist Gail Godwin (Evensong), playwright...