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Lying flat on the window sill, waiting to be hung, is a blown-up, framed copy of the cartoon that ran on The Crimson editorial page March 19, 2003. The cartoon depicts President Lawrence H. Summers as a puppeteer, manipulating Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, who is giving Lewis the boot...
...collision, a high riding SUV can plow over the hood or door sill of a smaller car and crush the passenger compartment. Several new SUVs incorporate safety bars or design features to prevent such incidents...
...intrigued by "Yet a Stranger: Why Black Americans Sill Don't Feel at Home" (Warner; May) by syndicated columnist Deborah Mathis, whose work appears in USA Today. "Forty years after the civil rights movement, not only does racism still exist but it's become even more insidious for having gone underground, argues Mathis. This more virulent strain of discrimination, less blatant, and therefore harder to confront, pervades American society to the extent that black Americans feel defensive and uncomfortable in their own country...
...series “Harlem Document” shows an African-American man in a cook’s apron. He leans out a window shaded by a vertically-striped awning. His right hand holds a pie, hawking it to passers-by; while his left rests on the sill. The fingers of that hand curl over the sign that hangs below which reads: “Peace / Home Cooked Meals / 10 & 15?...
...Franks started out in 1967 as a second lieutenant out of Artillery Officer Candidate School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma; he got his first combat experience as an artillery officer in Vietnam, where he was wounded three times. Now, as the commander in chief of Central Command, Franks is in charge of U.S. military operations for 25 nations in Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East - including Afghanistan, where Franks told TIME, "we have a lot of snow or a lot of sand, and on some days we have both...