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...woman responding to the pitch-perfect words of my black brother Wynton Marsalis. In his Essay "Saving America's Soul Kitchen" [Sept. 19], he wrote, "We always back away from fixing our nation's racial problems. Not fixing the city's levees before Katrina struck will now cost us untold billions. Not resolving the nation's issues of race and class has and will cost us so much more." America, listen to those words. If the cries of human suffering don't move us, perhaps enlightened self-interest will. Whatever the motivation, we must...
Though officially sponsored by the Catholic Student Association, this letter could have been written on the behalf of dozens of groups on campus, and an untold number of students, all of whom share the view that it is important to be friendly, make others welcome, and embrace new members of the community. The supporters of this letter hope that the freshman class and all classes at Harvard will ignore any shadows of the purported “mean Harvard” and seek out potential friends and companions from one of the greatest assemblies of young people in the world...
...Hurricanes ran the numbers through their storm-surge models. Around 7 p.m. Saturday, on the giant screen looming over the Emergency Operations Center in Baton Rouge, they posted the sum of all fears: New Orleans would go under. Everyone knew what that meant: a major water rescue of untold thousands. The next morning, with the storm less than 24 hours away, the team talked to federal health officials about the potential for disease from the rising waters. At midday Sunday, according to TIME's Cathy Booth Thomas, the L.S.U. team informed a roomful of disaster officialsfrom FEMA...
...Supreme Court. For political reasons, the President was considering appointing a woman, although he displayed grave doubts about women in power. "I don't even think women should be educated!" he sputtered, according to a transcript reprinted in Nixon aide John Dean's book The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court. Nonetheless, Nixon's re-election fight loomed, and he believed that appointing a woman could win him an extra 1% or 2% of the vote. So when the discussion turned to a little-known Justice Department lawyer named William Rehnquist...
...Astronomers figured that there was a one in 50 chance that MN4 would actually strike the Earth. Such an impact by an asteroid estimated to be as large as 1300 feet across could devastate a large region and perhaps, depending on where it hit, cause millions of casualties and untold billions in property damage...