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...White House officials said GM's pension funds will move over to the new GM. But some of the automaker's salaried retirees fear that, since they don't have a union, GM might not make their concerns a priority. Consequently, they have retained lawyers to force GM to ensure that their claims involving benefits and pensions are lodged with the new company...
...proud alumnae of Harvard College—one fourth-generation and white, one first-generation and African American. We took different routes to Harvard, but each of us experienced class, race, and financial struggles. Now, as educators who devote our lives to reaching out to underprivileged communities, we share a common concern...
...January 22, 1984, during the third quarter of Superbowl XVIII, an advertisement aired that would change the world’s perception of computing. As faceless gray drones marched lockstep down a long metallic tunnel, a sledgehammer wielding woman, clad in red and white sportswear raced past them. She approached an enormous screen casting Big Brother’s unhappy gaze upon the crowd and the woman launched the projectile, shattering his visage. The screen froze and words began to scroll: “On January 24th, Apple Computers will introduce Macintosh. And you?...
...healing balm to soothe our collective hurt. Entering from stage left, the secular savior trounced a “maverick” opposition with his calming rhetoric and confident stoicism. His most celebrated campaign poster Photoshopped him down to a few clean strokes and the reassuring hues of red, white, and blue; beneath his portrait, in bold block letters, was inscribed a single word—“HOPE.” It was simple, but it was enough. That one word, transmitted across the nation from person to person as current through a wire, galvanized the masses into...
...Staff writer William N. White can be reached at wwhite@fas.harvard.edu...