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They used to call it Black Broadway: the stretch of U Street in northwest Washington where the likes of Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and John Coltrane performed nightly. Then, in the 1960s, the neighborhood fell victim to urban blight as riots burned down much of the commercial district and affluent blacks moved to the suburbs. But these days efforts by local families to revive the area are taking hold. The result is a lively mix of recharged African-American culture and hip new shops and restaurants--less than 10 minutes from the National Mall...
...This past Friday, Harvard’s apathy has claimed another victim,” he told the crowd...
Bird and Sherwin’s praiseworthy account reveals Oppenheimer as a man tortured from within and hounded from without, a sad victim of both anti-Communism and good old-fashioned revenge...
...victim, Galo Garcia III ’05, was on his way to the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) “Inappropriate” party at Adams House with six of his friends when the assailant reportedly slowed down his vehicle and called Garcia a “faggot...
Heath care is likely the most important victim of America’s insatiable urge to sue; fears of malpractice suits push doctors to over-medicate their patients and employ expensive medical procedures excessively. In the last thirty years, for example, the number of American babies delivered by Caesarian section has increased five-fold, an increase fueled in part by bank-breaking jury awards in malpractice suits that found doctors liable for the pain and suffering of patients born with congenital diseases, such as cerebral palsy. A 2003 study in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, however, found that...