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According to a recent Los Angeles Times article, the golden age of radio died in the spring of 1949 when Wayne Coy, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, acknowledged the superiority of television. Radio sales had plummeted and periodicals issued story after story describing the plight of the beleaguered radio industry. Film and television had co-opted radio technology to move past the silent film era and into a new age of sync-sound entertainment. Why listen to Orson Welles narrate an alien invasion when you can watch Tom Cruise stop one?Instead of continuing to use the live...
...winter break, senior Samuel R. Cross ’07 received the results of a routine blood test and discovered that he has acute myelogenous leukemia, a condition that has led to chemotherapy instead of returning to classes. Now, Sam urgently needs a bone marrow transplant to survive. His plight has suddenly catapulted blood and organ donation into the Harvard community’s hearts and minds, a place where we hope this important cause will linger...
Perhaps no point shows the plight of the two Americas better than this: In 1920, black Americans owned 20 million acres of farm land. Today, black Americans in the south own one million acres of land. That corresponds to a 95 percent loss of land in three generations. While arguments can be made that these residents simply "got up and left," the impetus for this move is obviously connected to local racism for some, and for others, to a lack of financial support at the local and state level by governments which favored white landowners, especially farmers...
Unfortunately, the Gulf Coast is not unique in this plight of the "Two Americas." If the Gulf Coast is distinctive, it is so only in that the region has attracted media attention in the wake of Katrina. Yet, despite the rhetoric about advances over the past 50 years, the problems of discrepant opportunities and resources still run rampant. In this vein, educational and employment opportunities for racial minorities still lag well behind those available to the privileged...
...point missed by many such concerned commentators is that Obama cannot, and should not, be a “black president” any more than he should be a white one. A multiracial nation demands a colorblind president—one willing to fairly address the plight and concerns of every citizen...