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Between 1940 and 1970, in the second great migration of the 20th century, some 5 million black Americans moved from the farms and hamlets of the South to the cities of the industrial North, and the massive relocation left the nation transformed. Documenting this population shift with scholarship and anecdote, the author makes a major contribution to the understanding of the relationship between public policy and urban poverty...
...southwest Arkansas town of Hope (pop. 10,000). But Clinton was Hope's Doogie Howser, succeeding at everything he tried, the darling of his teachers and one of the first from the area to go to college. He got his bachelor's degree at Georgetown University, won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, then went on to Yale Law School, where he met his wife Hillary. By 1979, 32 years old and back in Arkansas, he was the youngest Governor in the country...
...named Solomon Perel (Marco Hofschneider). His parents send him away from home, hoping that as a free agent living by his wits, he can escape Nazi persecution. Captured first by Russians, then by a company of German soldiers, he becomes an accidental battlefield hero. His reward is a scholarship to an elite Hitler Youth school, where every shower is a threat: circumcision was a death warrant in Hitler's Germany. There is comedy and suspense in his story, shrewdness and innocence in his well-played character, irony and sadness in his situation, which keeps him always isolated in a crowd...
Fourth: Dear Richard A. Primus '92 (an editor of The Crimson and a recent Rhodes scholarship recipient...
Richard A. Primus '92, a Crimson editor, is a Social Studies concentrator. His senior thesis deals with the history of conflict between Zionist and anti-Zionist ideologies. He would hate it if we mentioned that he just won a Rhodes scholarship...