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This week that rebellion will be crushed--along with thousands of jobs--as Xerox is expected to announce its latest massive restructuring. Last week the company was reportedly considering selling its debt-ridden financing operation, which lends money to prospective customers, to GE Capital. It has also discussed selling Xerox PARC, its research center in Silicon Valley, a source of great innovation--from the computer mouse to the graphical user interface and laser printer--but, thanks to the missteps of top brass, not a source of much income...
...Harvard, poised at the beginning of the 21st century in a time of campus rest rather than a period of student rebellion, must chose a new kind of leader...
...countries. Evidence from slave ship revolts ? collected as part of the transatlantic slave trade database project (now available on CD-ROM from Cambridge University Press) ? suggests that African cohesiveness in resistance to the trade increased over the decades so that there was much more likelihood of a slave ship rebellion being successful in the second half of eighteenth century than a century earlier. From a broad five century perspective, everyone in the Atlantic World broadened their concept of the collective self, but for nearly four centuries of the Atlantic slave trade, collective identities were divided from each other along racial...
...with ingenious ways to protest--and in some instances, defy--the court's decision. For the faithful in the Christian heartland, praying on game night is the latest in a series of new constitutional maneuvers to circumvent laws that they consider to be secular oppression. Already the religious rebellion is organizing into a successful Christian resistance movement of everyday people. After an Alabama judge was sued for refusing to remove the Ten Commandments from his courtroom, Christian groups pushed to have them declared a historical document in several states. Now they hang next to the Declaration of Independence in dozens...
...sold real estate and ran answering services). Crowe skipped three grades, graduated from high school at 15 and became a journalist by sending writing samples to rock critic Lester Bangs (played in the movie by Philip Seymour Hoffman). Writing became both his vocation and his mode of rebellion against his mother Alice, a teacher who banned rock music in their home and refused to buy Crowe a bicycle because "they're too dangerous." ("If she'd bought me a bike, I'd probably have a different job now," says Crowe...