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That changes when a personal decision becomes a public act. A man who rode the Montgomery buses in 1950 wasn’t making a statement of any kind. But after Rosa Parks gave that rider a chance to attack segregation by attacking the bus system, the decision to ride started to mean something different. The same rider, doing the same thing, in 1956, was sending the wrong message and hurting an important movement...
...India's bureaucracy defeat your efforts to help the poor? Chidambaram: It is easy to blame the bureaucracy, yet it's the same bureaucracy that delivers in one place and fails to deliver in another. A bureaucracy is like a horse. It is only as good as the rider. If leadership is sound, we can extract results from the bureaucracy...
Although secular, nothing in Tomorrows is likely to offend Kingsbury's regular readers. The story of a male bull rider and a female rodeo rider bears the hallmarks of all Kingsbury's narratives: sympathetic characters facing overwhelming obstacles. "When I first wrote it, [Center Street] called and said, 'We need 80% of the Christian content to come out of it,'" recalls Kingsbury. "Because it's about love, I was O.K. with that. It's really about love that doesn't fail, and that's a I Corinthians 13 message." A message that can be embraced by devotees of the Bible...
...Shirley Temple was Hollywood's biggest box-office star; she was just 6 when the Motion Picture Academy voted her a special Oscar. Since then, the Academy has honored 16 actors under 14 with nominations or Oscars. Keisha Castle-Hughes, 14, the Maori charmer of Whale Rider, was cited last year. Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon) and Anna Paquin (The Piano) won supporting-actress Oscars on their first acting jobs. Standards change, and what was cute in the '30s can seem forced today. "I watched a Shirley Temple film the other night," says Trevor Albert, one of the producers...
...prevent the Harvard men’s swimming and diving team from a strong finish in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Open Swimming and Diving Championships this weekend. The Crimson, propelled by strong performances on the final day of competition, placed third in the event behind Rider and Marist...