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These crusaders have learned from the mistakes of their forebears who over the years have sought to ban everything—from alcohol to politically incorrect speech to women being seen in public without bonnets—and have traded in the role of morality police for that of ?...
Thanks for your story. It will help the parents of dyslexics spare their children the shame that often accompanies the disorder. I was always told that I wasn't trying hard enough, that I wasn't college material. At 37 I learned that I was dyslexic, and for the first...
In life and on film, Kaneshiro has proven impossible to typecast. The son of a Japanese businessman and a Taiwanese homemaker, he grew up in Taipei straddling two cultures. "When I went to Japanese school, everybody told me I was Taiwanese," says Kaneshiro. "But when I hung out in the...
Plimpton exhibited his Lampoon-cultivated humor when, as an April Fools’ joke in 1985, he wrote an article for Sports Illustrated profiling Sidd Finch, a fictitious Harvard dropout who learned to throw a 168-mile-per-hour fastball while studying yoga at a Tibetan monastery.
Our family learned the hard way that what you do not know about campus crime can kill you. We lost our beloved daughter, Jeanne, in 1986 when she was brutally raped and murdered at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania by a fellow student with a violent history.