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Despite years of second-class media citizenship, radio has never lost its fervent champions. "We take radio for granted, but it's in our cars, our kitchens, our bedrooms," says Charles Osgood, the CBS Sunday-night TV anchor who also does wry, and often rhyming, commentaries on CBS radio each weekday morning. "If someone told me I couldn't do any more TV, I'd be unhappy. But if I had to choose, it would be radio." Another stalwart of the medium, News Commentator Paul Harvey is a surviving link to an earlier era of network radio...
...injure "the nature of the artistic conception." Europe's disabled people complain that their concerns about access have been dismissed for too long. "We simply cannot be refused access to places because of disabilities," Michel says. Many like her are no longer willing to accept what they see as second-class treatment...
...student should be a second-class citizen, but the University’s future plans may be ensuring just that. The QRAC will be out of commission starting April 1, and next semester, Quadlings will return to new, smaller Hilles demi-library, with stacks now occupied by offices and other student space. Both construction initiatives are responding to legitimate and overriding student demands—the need for more student group and dance space is acute—yet together they spell a vast reduction in student services available to Quad residents...
Though No. 10 Harvard and Northeastern have long been relegated to second-class participation in the Beanpot—neither has been crowned “Best in Boston” since the Crimson last earned the title in 1993—a win in tonight’s 5 p.m. semifinal at the FleetCenter will provide one of the two oft-overlooked sides with a chance to put an end to No. 1 Boston College and No. 14 Boston University’s decade-long duopoly...
...Jack Johnson whom Burns and Ward reveal was less a civil rights crusader than an Ayn Rand protagonist: a stubborn individualist who refused to be bound by society's rules or by any group's claim on him. He didn't merely want to transcend second-class status; he seemed to believe his talent placed him in a class above all. Blackness captures how tragically he was proved wrong--and how exhilaratingly, for moments in the ring, he proved himself right. --By James Poniewozik