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Last Friday night, more than 250 Columbia University students gathered in front of Faculty House on the university's campus in Manhattan. The students "chanted, held up posters, and jeered at conference participants as they entered," according to the Columbia Spectator. Inside, University of California Regent Ward Connerly--a leading opponent of affirmative action--was opening a two-day conference sponsored by a group advocating conservative education reform...
Capuano spent the morning on the stump, visiting every ward in the district...
...nonsense lyrics--but suddenly they sounded compatible, credible and organic. The self-proclaimed loser was suddenly "the enchanting wizard of rhythm," devouring and reinventing 50 years of American pop music in one democratic bite. If Beck had lassoed the presumed spirit of Generation-X cool with his way-ward loser persona, the massive sound collage of Odelay put Beck even a step ahead of the zeitgeist. This was the sound of the future--just like the past, only hipper, more eclectic and with even more banjos...
...most memorable conversation occured at an event to remember the troubled past of the city. On a sticky night in late July, I took a bus to the corner in the Central Ward where the Newark riots began 31 years before. The Rev. William Hayes housing projects once stood on this site, but now half these dead buildings have been dynamited into rubble and the rest wait to collapse. When I arrived at the 17th Avenue bus stop, a large crowd milled around preparing to march in memory of the uprising victims. Soon a youthful marching band, followed by dancers...
...Only through education can we ward off the almost obvious potential for an increase in fraud in the marketplace," he said. "Giving people the ability to select investment options will provide the unscrupulous with new opportunities to deceive and distort...