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...debuting on Jan. 21 in most cities, uses a mix of historical footage and fresh interviews with participants to recount the major events that followed the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation. Names and episodes parade by like battles in a familiar military campaign: Rosa Parks' refusing to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery bus, nine black students' trying to attend high school in Little Rock, the murder of Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers and the 1963 march on Washington...
...after Harvard trailed for most of the first half, sophomore guard Kevin Collins drilled a 15-ft. baseline jumper with 37 seconds left in the opening stanza to give the Crimson a lead it would never relinquish...
...before the reluctant leader is, finally, a private one. As she becomes ever more the President, she may become less and less the ordinary person -- attending PTA meetings, making pasta and praying with her children -- who captured her country in the first place. In growing more assertive, she may relinquish some of the gentleness that was her greatest strength. Ultimately, in mastering politics, she may have to let politics master...
WITHOUT ANY CEREMONY and in complete silence, President Derek C. Bok at the end of this week will relinquish the reins of power and take refuge in Europe for a few months. Having spent the last 15 years of his life in Massachusetts Hall, Bok certainly deserves a sabbatical, but the president really started his vacation sometime in September. Since then the administration line has been one of retreat, defense and obfuscation. Despite the impetus one might think a milestone like the 350th celebration would provide, Bok has advanced virtually no new agendas, ignored student and faculty concerns and restricted...
...Supreme Soviet made much nalevo legal by passing a law that allows 29 types of private business, including carpentry and auto repair. One reason for the legislation is that it enables the state to collect added revenues. Practitioners of nalevo must now + register with their local governments and annually relinquish up to 13% of their earnings as income...