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...party" at a nightclub in Martin Luther King's hometown, on the eve of his birthday holiday. The goal was to bring people of different races together for a night of exuberant partying. Seconds after the simulcast announcement by morning show hosts Frank Ski of V-103 FM and Bert Weiss of Q100-FM, the phone lines at both stations lit up with calls of support from listeners frustrated by what they consider the city's racially divided social scene. "People of different cultures don't party together [here] like they do in New York, Los Angeles and Miami...
BEFORE ACCEPTING THE Nobel Peace Prize last month in Oslo, Al Gore called Bert Bolin, in part to thank the trailblazing climatologist for starting the process. In 1959, Bolin told federal scientists that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would rise 25% from 1850 to 2000. Thirty years later, as the first chairman of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change--which shared the 2007 Nobel with Gore--Bolin oversaw reports that led to such landmark agreements as the Kyoto Protocol, which called on industrialized nations to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions to 5% below 1990 levels...
...lead, and stand proud. 1. Iago from Disney’s “Aladdin” 2. Arnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad 3. Edmund from “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe” 4. Old Yeller 5. Willy Wonka 6. Bert and Ernie 7. Sherlock Holmes 8. The Cowardly Lion 9. Timon and Pumbaa 10. Peter Pan 11. Buzz Lightyear 12. Captain Jack Sparrow 13. Bastian from “The Neverending Story” 14. Troy Bolton from “High School Musical” 15. Gonzo
...taking the mantle from Yale, which dropped from first place to number 16. The Report Card’s press release proclaimed the Ivy League the “most sexually healthy conference.” All the Ivies placed in the top 40 schools in the ranking. Still, Bert Sperling, the founder of Sperling’s BestPlaces, the firm that conducted the study, said yesterday that he was a bit surprised that Ivy League institutions did not fare better in the study. “I’m familiar with the level of attention and care...
...Washington Mutual and Wells Fargo to your neighborhood savings bank. They are so closely regulated because taxpayers are on the hook for insuring the safety of their deposits. And so far this year, they've stayed out of big trouble. "The banking industry is in pretty good shape," says Bert Ely, an Alexandria, Va., banking consultant and expert on the S&L meltdown. "What came out of the aftermath of the S&L crisis was a very concerted effort--and it's been mostly successful--to move risk out of the banking system...