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Katonah, New York--a 12,000-person hamlet an hour north of Times Square--has a long history of standing up for itself. In 1897, after the state condemned the town to make way for a reservoir to serve the booming metropolis to the south, residents picked up their homes and moved a mile away. Literally. They loaded more than 55 houses and stores onto log rails greased with laundry soap and used horses to pull the buildings to a new town site. The Move, which is commemorated at the Katonah library with a diorama, took six months...
Peter Ueberroth Former Olympics organizer and director of the Contrarian Group, an investment firm For the 2007 Person of the Year, I nominate Vladimir Putin because he decided to perpetuate himself as a leader, letting the world know he's going to be around for a long time, in and out of office. He won the 2014 Winter Olympics for Sochi, Russia; he went to Guatemala and spoke English to an international crowd. He is an influence on all points of the globe--whether for good or bad, time will tell...
...devices evolve, people wind up befuddled and annoyed. The culprit: bad design, a longtime target of the Northwestern University professor. In his seminal 1990 book, The Design of Everyday Things, Norman explained why, for example, people so often switch on the wrong burner of an oven range--in a person's mind, a straight row of control knobs doesn't logically map onto a square stove...
...character say, "I'm straight." I imagine that since gay people have been oppressed for so long, they need to be combative about the subject so that in the future things will be better. This shows how far society has to go. But Dumbledore would be the same person to me if he liked women, men, sheep or trees. He is a great man, and his sexual preference has no bearing on his greatness. I hope we can get to the point at which a person's sexuality is no more an issue than the color of his socks...
...trouble,” the pessimism is widespread. Many problems have plagued the league, but the most commonly cited is a so-called disconnect between players and fans, which has led to dislike. As Klosterman puts it, most basketball players are “likely the tallest, richest, blackest person in almost any room in America, a nexus of physical, financial, and racial minorities. You have almost nothing in common with [them].” Yahoo! Sports columnist and former player Kenny Smith reached the point where he asked himself, “Is the league a bunch of rags...