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DIED. WALTER WASHINGTON, 88, former mayor of Washington and first black chief executive of a major American city; in Washington. The great-grandson of a slave, he was appointed Washington's mayor by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967; eight years later, after the city won home rule, he became its first elected mayor in more than 100 years. He steered the capital through some of the nation's worst urban riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., organized a new municipal bureaucracy and gave the city a budget surplus...
...typical of this brand of melodrama, The Æthiop’s plot is more convoluted than complex. The play is set in timeless Baghdad, complete with such characters as a vizier named Giafar, Cephania, Queen of the East, a cadi, an emir, a slave, and an Arab. But except for the exotic names and a few camel references, this is a play of troubled lovers, conspiracy and happy endings that could have been set anywhere...
...than an any other inter-country conflicts in world history. If veritas is indeed his aim, why stress the importance of the Constitution, a document fraught with hypocrisy from the opening lines of “all men created equal” following up with the decision that black slaves are equivalent to three-fifths of a man (a dirty secret is that Thomas Jefferson lost the popular vote but won the presidency on the backs of the extra votes given southerners by their slave holders). He claims that the Western “truth” has shaped...
Historical controversy arises once again with the advent of author and historian Gary Wills, here to talk about his new bestseller Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power. Wills explores an aspect of Jefferson’s presidency that is often glossed over: the idea that Jefferson actually achieved his presidency by maintaining the institution of “slave representation.” This event is part of the Harvard Book Store’s November Presidential Series, featuring talks with luminaries such as David Herbert Donald, Harry Wiencek and Gore Vidal. 6 p.m. Free. First Parish Church, Three...
...record, is "tour-egg"). VW says that Americans had difficulty pronouncing Passat when it launched. But that doesn't dispel the sense that VW's marketing department is in triage mode. Touareg, it turns out, also refers to a rugged tribe of African nomads that held and traded slaves until the 20th century - a poor association for a company that used slave labor during World War II. Last summer, Pischetsrieder's worldwide sales and marketing chief, Robert Büchelhofer, resigned under pressure and was replaced with several executives who now each command one brand. Will such moves be enough...