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Williams, the author of Eyes on the Prize, a history of the civil rights movement, recounts the now familiar saga of Marshall's step-by-step assault on Jim Crow as chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. But Williams also provides fresh insights into Marshall's ruthless role in the organization's tortured internal politics. Marshall had a hand in ousting not only W.E.B. DuBois, one of the N.A.A.C.P.'s founders, for his ties to communists, but also executive secretary Walter White, for committing the cardinal sin of marrying a white woman...
...Captain's associates, the feud is a sad diversion from Cousteau's message. "It's the saga of all great families," sighs Claude Wesly, 68, who came aboard in 1959. "Time will take care of it. Cousteau's work is immortal...
...slate for the future: the year 2000 problem, Microsoft versus the world and, of course, the continuing saga of RSI. You will also see TechTalk brought to the more dynamic forum of The Crimson Online (www.thecrimson.com...
...conclusion to this saga is unlikely soon, since Radcliffe's leaders have been forced to perform a precarious juggling act: institutional planning in one hand, media relations in the other...
...concur with some of its sentiments." Despite Ritter's principled protest, the tide of realpolitik may have turned against him -- Kofi Annan's call for a "comprehensive review" of the UNSCOM-Iraq relationship reflects an emerging consensus in the U.N. to try to bring the arms control-sanctions saga to a close...