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...think about it every day. I think about the people, the 900 people I saw who were young and old and vibrant and talented and performing on that first evening when I met them. I think about those images of their bodies in piles and final graves that have been used again and again and again. I think about what happened on the airstrip, too. I don't replay those events every day in full, but they cross my mind. When you're part of something like the events in Jonestown, they become part...
...just another cog in Universal Pictures' animation machine when, in 1927, Walt Disney created a character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. With his round, white face, big button nose and floppy black ears, the smiling Oswald was an instant hit and Universal ordered a series of shorts. When Disney met with executives to negotiate another contract in 1928, the rabbit was still riding high and the animator thought he had the upper hand. Instead, the studio told him that it had hired away all of his employeees and retained the rights to Oswald. Univesral offered to keep Disney...
...Nigerian by birth, said “It’s amazing because in my high school we were always saying it would be really cool to meet him when we were reading the book, and now that I’m at Harvard I’ve met him within three months of being here...
...sophomore Kate Mills said. “There was so much excitement behind the blocks. Everyone raced really well, and it was a fun way to start the season.” Entering the year with ambitious aspirations after finishing second in the Ivy League last year, Harvard certainly met early expectations. In the 14 events that the Crimson participated in, 13 of the 14 races ended with Harvard swimmers touching the wall first. “We’ve been working really hard in practice,” junior Natalia Festa said. “I think that...
...Just as steel and auto workers fought against unsafe working conditions and unlivable wages, teachers too demanded protection from parents and administrators who would try to dictate lesson plans or exclude controversial materials like Huck Finn from reading lists. In 1887, nearly 10,000 teachers from across the country met in Chicago for the first-ever conference of the National Educator's Association, now one of the country's most powerful teachers' unions. The topic of "teacher's tenure" led the agenda. By the turn of the century, tenure had become a hot-button issue that some politicians preferred...