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...year director Erik Payne Butler scheduled his ceremony last Thursday on purpose--a reminder, he says, that his graduates should be as celebrated as those folks across the Charles River. And there was an added juxtaposition this year: at Pine Street the keynote speaker was former Labor Secretary Robert Reich; Harvard welcomed Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan to speak to alums and graduates. The two men have very different views of the economy. In his memoir, Reich imagined that a frank exchange would involve his assailing Greenspan as a "robber-baron pimp" and the central banker's calling...
...showed both the best of times and the worst of possibilities--but not always in the ways you might expect. At Pine Street the yellow and white tent was donated, as were the flowers. A cerulean sky and cool morning air hung over the neighborhood's old brick buildings. Reich pondered his speech, in which he would remind the recently derelict grads that the great economy isn't trickling down to everyone; that the vagaries of life--and the inevitable economic downturn--would try them again. Couldn't he be more optimistic on this, their big day? "I'm going...
...then the 75 graduates marched in. Many wore donated clothes, and proudly. The bodily signs of high off-road mileage--sallow skin, dull hair--were outshone by the bright glint in their eyes. And Reich was quickly outdone by student speaker Fred McLemore, 34, whose natty gray suit and mustard bow tie were at odds with his story. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and became a homeless crack addict. With his last dollar, he came to the shelter two years ago. Now he leaves with an internship-cum-job in computers. "My boss is here...
...were ignored. Hitler, a teetotaling vegetarian, believed healthy living advanced the master race; Jews, Gypsies and smokers soiled the purity of the nation. The Fuhrer even boasted that his kicking the habit in 1919 helped bring about the "salvation of the German people." Hence the Allies saw the Third Reich's campaign against smoking as the product of fascism, not science. "It is still taboo to say anything positive about Nazi research," says Proctor, whose earlier work exposed the unspeakable acts of doctor-torturers like Josef Mengele. Meanwhile, the Nazis themselves continued to supply tobacco to their troops...
...hygiene." In 1943 he became medical chief at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he sent more than 400,000 non-Aryan prisoners to the gas chambers. On the side, he engaged in all manner of experimental butchery--dripping chemicals into prisoners' eyes to see if he could turn them a more Reich-pleasing blue, exposing others to infectious diseases to watch how different races respond to pathogens...