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Kennedy seemed to delight in telling audiences the opposite of what they wanted to hear. Amid the era's taut racial tensions, he spent more time asking white audiences to step into the shoes of aggrieved blacks than he did pandering to their desire for law and order. In Clarke's passionate retelling, Kennedy seemed to know what lay ahead; he ran his race with such disdain for safe politics, it was "as if this campaign might have to serve as legacy, and epitaph...
Then came Obama in St. Paul, Minn., with his wife Michelle next to him in a violet sheath (purple = red + blue). After a carefully gracious tribute to Clinton, he went right at McCain for being a quaint fossil of the Paleolithic era before launching the race into deep space. "This is our moment," he said. "This is our time." Moments, of course, are fleeting, and he talked about this one in the way geologists talk about eons. "Generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment ... when the rise...
...graduate students that will participate in it, but also undergraduates, who will receive a new pool of potential instructors and advanced course offerings). Finally, they also passed a measure to make professors’ academic work available online for free—a welcome move to end the era of for-profit academic publishing...
This year’s class is graduating in an amazing era of customization and niches, in which new technologies help us to channel ourselves in our preferred directions. For many people, it is both desirable and possible to create something like a Daily Me, or a MyUniversity.com, or a What-Pleases-Me.com. Many students use Facebook in just this way; they are expanding their horizons, to be sure, but in a way that can lead, paradoxically, to the emergence of groups that are both large and stunningly homogenous. Or consider student organizations. Harvard has a remarkably large assortment of groups, often...
...civil servants who agree to stay on. "Belgrade will never abandon you!" Serb politicians told crowds during a recent election campaign, but many locals who can afford to have reportedly bought property outside of Kosovo. Northern Mitrovica is taking on the look of an unloved relic: crumbling socialist-era apartment blocks are festooned with laundry; rickety sidewalk kiosks display Yugoslav-era money and postcards of fugitive indicted war criminals Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic. Vladimir Putin stickers are a hot seller...