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...while these shows were fun, they were far from educational. It wasn't until the debut of Sesame Street on Nov. 10, 1969, that TV became a medium tasked with developing young minds. Sesame Street's success wasn't exactly a surprise--about 2 million households tuned in to its premiere on PBS--but it was groundbreaking nonetheless. In addition to teaching kids ABCs and math--under the tutelage of an 8-ft.-tall yellow bird and an irritable garbage-can dweller--it was one of the first TV shows to depict an inclusive, racially harmonious neighborhood, prompting Mississippi...
...strain of anti-incumbent fever swept through the electorate Nov. 3 as cranky voters replaced two Democratic governors with Republicans and elected a Democrat to an upstate New York House seat that the GOP has long controlled. Maine voters rejected a law allowing gay marriage. Republicans sought to frame wins in Virginia and New Jersey as rejections of President Obama and a grim omen for his party in next year's congressional battles. But with economic angst and regional concerns dominant in most races, politics this year appeared primarily local...
BILL CLINTON, on his wife Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's response to an 11-ft. (3.6 m) bronze statue of the former U.S. President unveiled in Pristina, Kosovo, on Nov. 1. It honors his role in pushing for NATO intervention in 1999, which stopped Serb forces' crackdown on independence-seeking ethnic Albanians...
...students took 53 Americans hostage, U.S.-Iran relations are nearing another nadir: Tehran has blamed its unrest on Western meddling, and October's U.N.-brokered deal to reduce Iran's nuclear stockpile appears to be collapsing. Yet many Iranians no longer buy their leaders' anti-American orthodoxy. While the Nov. 4 displays of defiance were not as large as June's protests over the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the persistence of such demonstrations is proof that much has changed since the Islamic revolution. The crowds at the former U.S. embassy chanted their traditional "Death to America...
...immediate cause. It’s a full circle orchestrated by Stone that capitalizes on the necessarily absent center of a continuous loop, and though the action has come to a close, its ideas continue to linger—unlike the show itself, which closes on Nov...