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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...forced desegregation of Little Rock, at the outset of the Class of 1958’s senior year, stemmed from the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision four years earlier, which declared that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal...

Author: By Brittany M Llewellyn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Race and the Ivy | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...speech she didn't get to deliver for best song, from the weeny Irish film Once. It wasn't the best song - indeed, none of the five finalists deserved to be nominated in a category that has honored "Lullaby of Broadway," "The Way You Look Tonight," "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe," "Over the Rainbow," "Under the Sea," "Streets of Philadelphia" and "Theme from Shaft" - but the gesture was cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Evening for 80-Year-Old Oscar | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

...birth of our second child. Simply put, I have worked both in the home and outside of the home, just as a vast majority of American women have. Thank you for letting me clear up these errors so they don't appear in print a third time. Mary Brownback, Topeka, Kans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

That's how a lot of older people nowadays think about marathons. "For days after running a marathon you just feel this sense of calm, of accomplishment," says Marla Rhoden, 50, a government administrator in Topeka, Kans. Her times are slower than they were 10 years ago. "But that's not hard to take," she says. "I do well for my age." She placed first among runners ages 50 to 59 in the Boston Marathon in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marathon Generation | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

...birth of our second child. Simply put, I have worked both in the home and outside of the home, just as a vast majority of American women have. Thank you for letting me clear up these errors so they don't appear in print a third time. Mary Brownback, TOPEKA, KANS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Arctic Grab | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

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