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...right, whoa, it's all right!" A shout from Andrew Young blocked King at the door--"Don't let him out of here!"--and hands pulled him into a sudden chorus of Happy Birthday. King wore a sheepish, captured look, recorded by one home-movie camera, when pioneer television host Xernona Clayton came forward to toast his turning...
...right up there on the Freedom Ride. She's an innovator in nonviolence, and King gave her his highest award and I think he recognized her, but at the same time, she was kind of trampled and lost and neglected, and not appreciated. He knew that she was doing pioneer things, and that the women did, but the tradition of pulpit leadership was so male and that standard, he was just comfortable with that...
...good.' It was just gigantic! You know, Mao would have been so jealous!" Some couples have ballroom dancing. The Gateses have saving the world. And they like to do it the uncomfortable way, by looking straight into lives they know nothing about. Paul Farmer, a public-health pioneer, has been host to them both in Haiti. "I think they, unlike many people, have allowed themselves to remain open to the pain that a lot of people experience," he says. "Watching them listen, really listen, and wait for the answers and study people's faces and pay attention, I was very...
...been rich and famous people who feel the call to "give back," which is where big marble buildings and opera houses come from. But Bill and Melinda didn't set out to win any prizes--or friends. "They've gone into international health," says Paul Farmer, a public-health pioneer, "and said, 'What, are you guys kidding? Is this the best you can do?'" Gates' standards are shaping the charitable marketplace as he has the software universe. "He wants to know where every penny goes," says Bono, whose DATA got off the ground with a Gates Foundation grant. "Not because...
...Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays! by Winsor McCay and edited by Peter Maresca (Sunday Press) 100 years ago there appeared a full color comic strip unlike any seen before or since. "Little Nemo in Slumberland," by Winsor McCay, a pioneer of both comics and animation ("Little Gertie the Dinosaur"), followed the adventures of a little boy in the world of dreams until, at the end of every episode, he awakens. Some of the most visually inventive comics ever created, McCay's strips would put Nemo through diamond palaces, into the mouths of dragons, and as a giant...