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Those were heady hours. Luce and Hadden, recently out of Yale, had struggled for about a year scrounging up financial backing to launch a radically new idea in journalism: a weekly newsmagazine that aimed to summarize world events and organize them in pithy style. Now editors Luce and Hadden were putting to press the first issue of TIME, with House Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon on the cover. "It wasn't bad at all," Luce wrote later. "In fact, it was quite good. Somehow it all held together -- it made sense, it was interesting...
Nearly 20 years later, Reeves saw a chance to launch by proclamation the African American Heritage Project to highlight African American achievements by drawing on the talents of many scholars...
Long past midnight, top government officials worked feverishly inside the FBI's Washington headquarters to launch an assault by the elite Hostage Rescue Team. At stake were the lives of nine employees at the Talladega federal prison, in Alabama, who were being held captive by a mob of prisoners armed with spears, knives and crossbows. Suddenly FBI Director William Sessions walked in and began marching around the room, "making noise, strutting around, being somewhat pompous, and engaging in non sequiturs," as one official recalls. Instead of dealing with the crisis at hand, the officials were forced to humor Sessions...
...bright spot for the Crimson was their three point shooting. (If Harvard only had to launch treys, it would have wrapped up the league title a while back.) Last night, despite an off night in many other areas, Harvard still managed to connect on 48 percent of their trifectas...
Groups already exist with the stated goal of making government operate within its funds. Perot's United We Stand and the Concord Coalition founded by former New Hampshire Senator Warren Rudman are two of the most visible. These and other groups must launch a massive, united campaign aimed at Congress and at the general public...