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...important to recognize young leaders as role models, as the future leaders of this country who are working hard to change the world.” Initially skeptical of what difference she could make in politics, Madigan was inspired by her work under late Senator Paul M. Simon, D-Ill. She later taught young women in South Africa and witnessed the effects of apartheid firsthand. She said that her time there motivated her “to pursue social justice and hopefully change the world for the better.” “This award will serve...
...Genocide Avenger Known as the Nazi hunter who pursued war criminals for more than 50 years, Simon Wiesenthal [MILESTONES, Oct. 3] helped with the arrest of 1,000 people charged with killing Jews. Wiesenthal, who was himself imprisoned in several concentration camps, became the conscience of the Holocaust, making certain that the atrocities of World War II were not forgotten. On March 31, 1967, TIME wrote about Wiesenthal's memoir The Murderers Among Us. Here is an excerpt from the review that touches on the fate of the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank...
...like Whole Foods and gourmet specialty outlets like Trader Joe's, Williams-Sonoma and Dean & Deluca. As a result, home cooks can now take advantage of the caramel, crunchy tang of large-crystal, raw-cane demerara from Malawi or the toffee-infused taste of dark, sticky muscovado from Mauritius. Simon Cutts, bulk-foods manager for the Wild Oats national specialty chain of natural-food stores, says the consumer demand for these sugars mirrors the organic-food boom, with sales growing at a rate of 25% a year. "Once customers taste these sugars," he says, "they find it shocking...
...spinning this, saying that it is doing it for the publisher and the writer’s own good,” she said. “They leave out the part that...this allows them to sell millions of dollars of advertisement.”A spokesman for Simon & Schuster, one of five major publishers on whose behalf AAP filed its lawsuit, said Google’s current practice of scanning books without permission constitutes a violation of copyright law.“At the very basic level, we feel that it is simply wrong for Google...
...fall. Drake raves about his Harvard student director experience, saying, “Learning the ropes ourselves seems to be great preparation for the outside world.” Sean R. Fredricks ’07, directing “The Alchemist” this fall with Simon N. Nicholas ’07, also praises the level of control that Harvard directors can wield. “Students directing students can be frustrating at times,” Fredricks says, “but it can also be amazingly rewarding when you can learn lessons in a place where...