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...look away, dragging on their cigarettes. The look on their face is not of shock or horror, but a numb roll of the eyes, as if they've already begun to see the shooting as some sort of campus ritual, akin to the nuclear-attack drills of the 1950s. Asked why he thought students were resorting to gun violence again and again, Michael Woods, a friend of Cheek's, says, "Kids like T.J. are seeing it and hearing about it all the time now. It's like the new way out for them...
During his long reign, Suharto led an outwardly modest life. Behind the facade, however, he showed an appetite for making money. In the 1950s, he was allegedly involved in sugar smuggling that may have cost him command of an army division during a 1959 anticorruption drive. Suharto asserts that he bartered sugar for rice to ease a local food shortage and did not benefit personally, but he was transferred to a less influential position at the army staff college...
DIED. JOHN MINOR WISDOM, 93, pioneering civil rights judge and an architect of the New South; in New Orleans. Wisdom was one of four judges of the South's Fifth Circuit in the 1950s and '60s whose opinions helped end segregation (see Eulogy...
...done this study in the 1950s, '60s or '70s, no one would have been surprised," Freeman said. "But in the '80s, we had economic expansion, [yet] it seemed to leave behind the less educated people...
...Harvard Cooperative Society, founded in 1872, built its current building in 1924 in the center of the Square. However, a huge awning covered the original facade, which Sullivan described as "an elegant, classical Georgian facade," in the early 1950s...