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...were asking a "fair question" when they wondered about what was happening. His answer: "We will do everything, everything in our power ... so that the collapses of the past years should never be repeated in our country." Says Alexander Kliment, a Russia analyst at the Eurasia Group in New York City: "The Russian leadership turned a blind eye to this crisis until it ended up staring them in the face...
Less than a thousand miles away, an interracial group of some 60 activists met in New York City to discuss how best to defend Lincoln's dying legacy. They called themselves the National Negro Committee, later changing their name to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Since then, the NAACP has worked tirelessly to transform American race relations. In 1915 it protested the blockbuster silent film Birth of a Nation, which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and was enthusiastically screened at the White House by Woodrow Wilson. In 1930 its members blocked the Supreme Court nomination...
...stimulus. Those people want to focus on fighting the recession, and they don't see Pell Grants, renewable-energy subsidies, health-care technology and Head Start as the best ways to do that. "Many of them are worthy, but we can have that debate another day," argues conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks. (See pictures of Barack Obama behind the scenes on Inauguration...
...hearing room was a reminder of Holder's uncommon roots: there was his wife Sharon Malone, a prominent obstetrician whose late sister Vivian Malone Jones faced down George Wallace to integrate the University of Alabama in 1963; his brother Billy, who became a New York Port Authority cop; his three young children, who may never know the indignity of racial profiling; and his mother Miriam, 85, who brought up two sons to revere the law. "We taught them to help where you can and right the wrongs that you see," she says. As in the old days, that...
...Every kind of film critic was represented: the loves-it-all USA Today type, the can’t-stand-anything-but-artsy New York Times type, the bitter-because-I’d-rather-be-writing-scripts L.A. Times type, and everything in between. Those endowed with press or corporate passes blew by the long lines that grouped outside the theaters, but for once, nobody seemed to mind. Despite the wintry weather, the cinematic discourse continued on between strangers and new acquaintances unabated...