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Camille Paglia, professor of Humanities at the University of the Arts in Philidelphia and an outspoken critic of women's studies programs, criticizes the concentration for not having a scientific base. "To theorize about sex you have to first study the foundation," she says...
...20th century, 1,091 Negroes were lynched in the United States. Some were publicly burned at the stake. In the 1906 race riots in Atlanta, Mrs. DuBois was beaten so severely that she never fully recovered. Dr. DuBois had seen Negro poverty close at hand, first in Philidelphia, then in Georgia. These things made him turn away from the idealistic optimism that he had learned at Harvard and led him to reject the conciliation of Booker T. Washington...
Dartmouth bowed out of the NCAA basketball tournament last night, losing to Canisius, 66 to 58, in Philidelphia...
...Henry George (1839-1897), after hardly more than a grammer-school education in Philidelphia, leda varied life, including seafaring, elopement, printing, journalism. In 1879 he published his most famous work, Progress and Poverty, which sold by millions and was translated into several languages. He toured Ireland, England, Australia for his cause-a single tax, a tax that would support all government by consuming all the economic rent of the land. The slogan of the Single Tax Party was at one time: "We Want the Earth...
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