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...human urge to self-determination which bound Mandela so strongly to his Harvard audience. It is the imperative of self-determination which gives us no choice now but to become global citizens. But as citizens of this vulnerable planet, we must also cultivate an effective form of citizenship and loyalty toward those real and significant places which sustain and shape our being...
...versatile actors; of cancer; in Los Angeles. He survived a run of sensitive-boy roles in the '40s (including Lassie Come Home and How Green Was My Valley) to appear in adult parts ranging from Octavian in Cleopatra (with close friend Elizabeth Taylor) to the chimpanzee Cornelius in the Planet of the Apes film series...
Fortunately for our planet, SGR1900+14 is 20 light-years away. Its radiation was so weakened by the time it got here that its X rays and gamma rays couldn't penetrate the atmosphere. No one was harmed--except, perhaps, for textbook publishers, who are suddenly, through no fault of their own, out of date...
...Planet Hollywood. Congratulations: it is fifteen years after graduation, and you've finally hit the big time. In fact, you're so famous that the moguls of the entertainment world have determined that your yearbook photo is worthy of being featured on paper placemats and splattered with ketchup by fourth-graders attending birthday parties across the nation. Your face will be prominently featured next to "Demi Moore: Chess Club (Vice-President)." Dreams do come true. Trouble is, since a bachelor's degree is no prerequisite for stardom, they'll probably be using your high school mug shot instead--making your...
...honors as narrator for the recent documentary "Behind the Planet of the Apes." The job called for an open embrace of the sci-fi/camp classics that Charlton Heston had clearly sidestepped, just as he did by bowing out of the series after just a teaser role in the first sequel. McDowall loved every minute of it; you could see it in his eyes. He loved the makeup, the social commentary, the sense of doing something that hadn't been done, then doing it over and over again as long as they kept paying you. McDowall was a pro -- temperamental...