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...schedule on Friday included meetings with University President Lawrence H. Summers and MIT President Susan Hockfield. Khai, who claimed higher education as a theme of his visit, spent part of the afternoon on a Kennedy School of Government (KSG) panel discussion devoted specifically to that topic...
...perfect equality." In a 1968 piece for Ebony, "Was Abe Lincoln a White Supremacist?", Lerone Bennett Jr. presented a Lincoln who often told racist jokes and who, well into his presidency, urged that freed blacks should leave the U.S. for another continent. Three decades later, Bennett returned to the theme in his book Forced into Glory, which became a best seller in black-interest bookstores...
HOMES: Fantastic, isolated theme parks...
...so many kids' shows feature books as magic objects? Are they ashamed of being TV? This take on the theme is at least based on a book series, by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith. Three boys use a magic tome to time-travel, meeting odd characters--including their great-granddaughters. It's a clever history lesson that doesn't feel like homework...
...seasoned rake and frank fortune hunter. In less imaginative hands, the play would end with the younger man's reforming and the older couple's rediscovering the first fine flush of passion. Shaw indulges no such false hopes. He sketches the destructive powers of jealousy and possession. His central theme is the confusion brought to courtship by the liberation, and education, of women. The surprisingly contemporary subject allows Shaw to uncork a few deft jokes and also to deliver characteristic pronunciamentos, profound on first hearing, murky on repetition: "Women have to unlearn the false good manners of their slavery before...