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...personal hero of mine and a founding mother of the modern lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender--rights movement, Dorothy (Del) Martin died Aug. 27 at the age of 87. Del's entire life was marked by moments of singular courage, intelligence and insight. She began as a journalist, studying at the University of California, Berkeley. She applied her vision and writing skills to activism, and she can be credited with some of the most transformative changes toward LGBT equality. Del's contributions include co-founding the nation's first lesbian organization--Daughters of Bilitis--and the first lesbian newspaper...
...That singular determination was obvious at the Water Cube this week. In race after race, setting record after record, Phelps kept his body and mind trained on a set of goals that only he and coach Bob Bowman were privy to for these Games. While he still won't reveal the specifics, he did admit that he wrote them down - the first time he has documented his mission at a meet - and that "it all happened this week...
...Asian cities - a phenomenon Manila-based PhilMusic.com founder Jim Ayson attributes to simple oversupply. "There are more musicians in the Philippines than there are opportunities," says Ayson, himself a drummer and an acquaintance of Pineda in the 1980s. But Pineda's rags-to-riches story is giving new and singular hope to Filipino singers. "A lot of singers here tried to make it in the States and they couldn't," he says. "[Pineda] made...
...hard to imagine a future Russert with that kind of singular authority, as the power to set the news agenda moves from insiders to outsiders. But with that change, maybe we'll also stop arbitrarily dividing "real" from "amateur" journalists and simply distinguish good reporting from bad, informed opinion from hot air, information from stenography. Maybe we'll remember this election as the one when we stopped talking about "the old media" and "the new media" and, simply, met the press...
...Given these complexities, SEAS, an organization closely connected to the sciences and increasingly linked to Harvard’s professional schools, has a singular opportunity to help future engineers explore the interplay of technology and society. At the same time, SEAS is positioning itself as a resource to ensure that whatever path students pursue, they do not leave campus “technologically agnostic?...