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...diplomatic recognition. The lighter-skinned Dominicans looked down on the darker-skinned Haitians: in 1965, even as the Dominican Republic was embroiled in civil war, Haitians were working in Dominican fields and not the other way around. And while Trujillo at least encouraged economic development in his country, Duvalier père et fils essentially sold their people as cheap sugar-cane cutters to the Dominican Republic...
...James P. Dinger, RUTHER GLEN...
...hard to tell what's good from what's gimmicky. "There is not enough evidence that paying for a $100 fitness program gets you better results than a free game of chess or learning a new card game or bridge strategy, when it comes to improving your memory," says P. Murali Doraiswamy, a professor of psychiatry and geriatrics at Duke University and head of the school's new mental-fitness lab. (See 10 myths about dieting...
...bill faced a somewhat tougher fight in the Senate, however. In an opposition campaign led primarily by Republican Senators John P. East and Jesse Helms of North Carolina, some attempted to emphasize King's associations with communists and his alleged sexual dalliances as reasons not to honor him with a federal holiday. As part of his efforts, on Oct. 3, 1983, Helms read a paper on the Senate floor, written by an aide to Senator East, called "Martin Luther King Jr.: Political Activities and Associations" and also provided a 300-page supplemental document to the members of the Senate detailing...
...Team, which Faust characterized in her letter as having “expertise in design, urban planning, business strategy, real estate development, and public policy.” The committee will be led by Peter Tufano, senior associate dean for planning and university affairs at Harvard Business School, Bill P. Purcell, director of the Institute of Politics and former mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, and Alex Krieger, chair of the department of urban planning and design at the Graduate School of Design...