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Usually the opening ceremony for the Olympics is a bit like Oscar night: You suffer though a lot of pretentious, self-indulgent schmaltz just so you can enjoy a couple of interesting moments that might be memorable and even historic. Like the Oscars, the ceremony can drag on and on: parading 10,000 athletes from 199 countries, Albania through Zimbabwe, makes for a long evening. And that spectacle can become as tedious as actors thanking their agents, except that the athletes dress more exotically...
...line with new federal policy requiring colleges to make a "good faith effort" to register their students to vote. In addition, the nonpartisan Community Action Committee of the Institute of Politics (IOP) set up computers to help students request absentee ballots from their home states through www.voter.com. Though these services will not be available today for upperclass registration, the IOP does plan to table in the dining halls and remind students to send in those ballots and go to the polling stations November...
...Though Riley had set up a training program to deal with racial and ethnic sensitivity issues, the vestiges of past problems were still there. And though Riley was able to successfully negotiate the incident, it was one he will not soon forget...
...World War II's least known stories: In late 1938 and through much of 1939, the Nazis permitted some 10,000 Jewish children and adolescents to escape to England via trains and then boats. Why the Nazis did so remains something of a mystery, though surely the world's shocked response to Kristallnacht, when Hitler's thugs burned hundreds of synagogues in a single night, had something to do with it. They wished briefly to place a human face on National Socialism. "Into the Arms of Strangers," an extraordinarily fine and understated documentary, written and directed by Jonathan Mark Harris...
There may yet be occasion to recall a quote by Proudhon: "The fecundity of the unexpected far exceeds the prudence of statesmen." My guess, though, is that it is already too late for George W. Bush...