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...Real life doesn't quite provide that kind of a party for actual 10 million milers - though certainly get treated well. Phillip Dunkelberger is the president of a data protection firm. Work sends him around the globe and he has earned about 14 million miles, mostly with American. ("I'm also an elite on United and Luftansa," he says.) What did he get at 10 million? It passed with the outward fanfare of an on-time arrival. "It was a trip to Zurich two years ago. I knew this trip would put me over 10 million miles," he recalls...
Among the more interesting discoveries were pipe stems, ceramics with hand-painted designs, and glass bottles. The students who originally owned these objects didn't know it back then, but these will now be used by archaeologists to learn about life at this 17th century college. (Makes us think twice about throwing that empty Cape Cod chips bag on the ground.) These recovered artifacts have been donated to the Peabody Museum, where Fash serves as the director...
...abortion debate typically occurs within the boundaries a democracy sets, ones of peaceful, if not always respectful, debate and advocacy on both sides. But Tiller's murder reminds us that in matters of life and death, the argument itself can become a matter of life and death...
...born to do war with racism. But while others expected him to become a lawyer, he resolved to be a historian. He rejoiced in this vocation and, more than anyone else, taught us that American history and African-American history are inseparably intertwined. To the end of his long life, racial prejudice filled him with fresh indignation, though he was never entrapped in indignation. He had a vast curiosity, a genius for friendship and always a wonderful gleam in his eye - a sign that he loved the human spectacle in all its astonishing forms...
...Adds Bakash, "Later in life he became a defender of individual rights which he [had] ignored in the early years of the revolution," championing everything from an open press to freer speech...