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...Harvard’s and the Smithsonian’s observatories, which had been housed in the same building in Cambridge since 1955, together received more funding than any other comparable site, as a result of their combined size. (The two institutions merged in 1973 to form the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and Shapiro went on to direct the Center from...
...That experience radicalized me,” he said. “I didn’t become an activist as a result of reading the right books. I just thought, ‘My god, both these cities are in the same country, but in one school system [in Roxbury], the children are shortchanged in every possible way you can imagine...
Probst, 43, focuses her work on capturing not just a photographic instant but also the swirl of perspectives surrounding that instant. To do that, she uses a cannonade of radio-controlled cameras, arrayed about a scene and synchronized to fire at once. The result is often a complicated and even confounding story...
...people who were part of the mainstream antiwar movement and who later voted against Ronald Reagan. These people opposed the Vietnam War but didn't hate their country. They were horrified by violence and sincerely wanted the war to end. They believed in democracy, even when dismayed by the result. The slogan of the Underground, by contrast, was "Bring the war home." For strategic and psychological reasons, the Underground wanted the Vietnam War to go on. They wanted the killing and dying to continue and spread, along with anarchy, dope and free...
...Except it wasn't. McCain had been leaning on current and former lobbyists for months in part because he's never had a grassroots fund-raising operation akin to Obama's. As a result, he had to shoot down questions about all the special pleaders working for his campaign. "These people have honorable records," he said in February. "And they're honorable people." But his new policy, which was stricter than what some senior advisers favored, undid all that straight talk and prompted a weeklong purge inside the campaign. A number of lobbyists were tossed over the side overnight, generating...