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Last Tuesday, national leaders gathered in Lithonia, Ga. to observe and partake in the funeral of the famed civil rights icon Coretta Scott King. Replete with hefty doses of pomp and spectacle, the nation watched with rapt attention as political and civil rights leaders paid their final respects to one of the great women of the 20th century...
...much more—offered up, with little chance that any of it will be accomplished.The reward for shmoozing and outlandishness has been a bevy of nonsensical endorsements. Ethnic groups, who rely on the UC to fund Cinco de Mayo festivities and baba ghanoush feeds, seem to be particularly rapt with this game, but the implications of an ethnic endorsement are transparently ludicrous. Can campus Arabs hope to gain more from John S. Haddock ’07, the endorsed candidate of the Society of Arab Students, than the others? Why is John F. Voith...
Upon arriving in London on Thursday July 7th, just hours after the explosion of four bombs on the city’s subway trains and commuter buses, I am not sure whether my attention is held rapt more by the anomalous signs of recent chaos or by the signs of normality that still characterize the city...
...legend grew. In the 1930s, Henry Fonda played Lincoln on the big screen and stonecutters carved his face on Mount Rushmore; in the 1940s, Aaron Copland's magisterial Lincoln Portrait debuted; in the 1950s, Carl Sandburg held a joint session of Congress rapt with his speech that began, "Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is hard as rock and soft as a drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect." In 1963, TIME put Lincoln...
...confidently played to a draw that broke Karpov's run. Because he could retain his title with a tie, Kasparov had merely to draw the next three games. But caution is not his style, and he attacked in the first part of Game 22. The next day a rapt Leningrad audience watched as officials revealed the move Kasparov had decided on before adjournment the previous evening: a knight's assault on the king. The crowd rose and cheered as they realized that the tactic almost certainly guaranteed victory. The last two games were draws, making the final score 12?...