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...provided a milestone in TV history as well. The astonishing popularity of Ken Burns' 12-hour mini-series, which aired on PBS in September 1990, profoundly shook the TV world. On PBS, attempts to duplicate The Civil War's success have ranged from big-event mini-series like Columbus and the Age of Discovery to countless American Experience documentaries. The commercial networks too have jealously eyed the program's hefty ratings. It was only a matter of time before one of them took a chance on a similar effort. Which is the reason for Lincoln...
...fault autobiography, Push Comes to Shove (Bantam; $24.50). That's enough for most busy artists, but energy is Tharp's signature both in choreography and in life. She has now renewed her partnership with Mikhail Baryshnikov for a 24-city national tour that started two weeks ago in Columbus, Ohio, and extends until...
Although I disagree with the conclusion that Christmas is non-religious, as Eric R. Columbus suggested in his commentary "My Santa's No Secret" in yesterday's Crimson, I welcome alternative viewpoints...
They were responsible for handling money, so others resented the "greedy Jews" for charging interest or foreclosing. The same stereotype Columbus used in his editorial was the excuse used by Hitler to blame the Jews for Germany's economic problems and to slaughter them by the millions...
...world development and standards of living, the problems of World Bank and IMF programs in Africa and the Green Revolution in India in my "Development Economics" course. I also listened to and learned from professors teaching other courses on the ship, ranging from "Saints East and West," "The Columbus Voyage," "International Marketing," "Women's Rights Around the World," and many others in the required course on comparative international studies. Not only did I read about the above topics in books or see them on a screen, I was there. I saw the statistics, I felt the facts, I met with...