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...remembering childhood: the Pooh, Piglet and Rabbit doors hidden in the trees and bushes between the Science Center and Littauer. Pooh lives at the base of a tree; Rabbit and Piglet are across the path and a bit harder to find. An early visit--say, before 11 a.m.--often finds small children in strollers calling good morning to Pooh in passing, or leaving "presents" inside his wooden door...
What Dash has discovered is that this bumpy path to dotcom success is littered with many of the same obstacles faced by African Americans in the traditional corporate world. Only in this case, he faced a new-boy network, made up mostly of white, middle-class male computer engineers mixing comfortably with M.B.A.s--guys who often knew one another as undergraduates. "Back in 1997, it wasn't cool to be a black dotcom," says Patrick McElroy, president of Atlanta-based EverythingBlack.com a virtual meeting ground for more than 600 African American-owned websites. Dwayne Walker, 39, a veteran of Microsoft...
...romantic-comedy successor to Cary Grant. Or he could evolve into a Sean Connery, who has in a masterly way affixed himself in the public consciousness as both the beautiful young Bond and the Oscar-winning old lion of "The Untouchables." But, more than likely, Gibson will follow the path of another aging sex symbol, Robert Redford, who has extended his career by working behind the camera...
Politics has ignited the ethnic tension that had been largely contained during the first 30 years of independence. Whether Cote d'Ivoire can heal from the emergence of ethnic clashes is questionable. The path to political power appears to pass through a forest of ethnic rivalry rather than cohesion, and the political parties remain divided along ethnic lines. Houphouet's success in leading Cote d'Ivoire lay in his understanding of the ethnic diversity of the country. His successors have instead played up ethnic tensions in their bids to retain power, and the disenfranchisement of the vast majority of Ivorians...
...courts and the legislature have seemed to hibernate. And sometimes Congress or the courts seem to take the lead in setting the currents of our society. At times of crisis in American history, the courts have often been the institution that helped steer the country to the right path. Brown v. Board of Education was a triumph of judicial activism and morality...