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Wilson joined NASA in 1996 and flew her first mission a decade later. She is the second African-American woman to ever fly in space...
...have the same success as the B boat, its ninth-place finish was good enough to send the women’s team to a top-five finish. Lambert and Jumper improved over the course of regatta, bouncing back from two 18th place finishes with consecutive second-place finishes. After slipping back to double digit places, the duo was able to taste second place once more as it rallied to finish in the top half of the A boats...
...last factor the Beast considered was the amount of crime on campus. Apparently, our little bubble isn’t that safe—Harvard was ranked the second least-safe campus of the schools considered. No. 1? Tufts University...
...Americans are great forgetters.” So declares reporter Welborn McIntyre in one of the oldest fragments of Ralph Ellison’s unfinished second novel, “Three Days Before the Shooting....” Previously available only in heavily-edited form as “Juneteenth,” it is a work in which the most significant voices are those dedicated to memory and to the preservation and interpretation of experience—whether through reporting, storytelling, preaching, or even prophecy. McIntyre’s proclamation stands as a challenge to an entire nation...
...Invisible Man,” was enough to vault him into 20th century literary canon. Like “Invisible Man,” Ellison’s unfinished novel addresses the construction of personal, racial, and national identities. The sheer number of voices represented makes this second effort a Faulknerian pinwheel of shifting perspectives. In his notes, Ellison explains that he was attempting to create in “intricate dialogue” among his characters...