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CHARLIE PARKER COMPLETE JAZZ AT MASSEY HALL...
Hobsbawm addressed America’s past and present foreign policy in his speech, the second of three William E. Massey lectures this week sponsored by Harvard’s Program in the History of American Civilization...
...Past Massey lecturers have included, Richard Rorty, Toni Morrison, Gore Vidal, and Alfred Kazin...
Soon afterward, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was demoted, subsumed by the new Department of Homeland Security. That was a mistake, says William Massey, who spent 24 years as FEMA's hurricane-program manager for the southeast U.S. before retiring last year. "The emphasis on terrorism has really hurt FEMA's efforts." When Ivor van Heerden, deputy director of the Louisiana State University (L.S.U.) Hurricane Center, suggested a year ago that the agency stockpile tents for when houses blow down, "this woman from FEMA said, 'Americans don't live in tents,'" van Heerden recalls. "I said to her, people...
...Hispanic immigrants spread beyond their strongholds in New York, California and Texas, summer sports--and the spectators that cluster around them--are turning up the heat on already simmering ethnic and class tensions, according to Princeton University sociologist Douglas Massey. "There are complaints in parks and fields all across America. Volleyball just happens to be the local version in Danbury," he says. "But if you know anything about Latin cultures, this is pretty innocent stuff. They bring their families. The men aren't getting totally drunk because, really, they are there for the sports...