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1968

That's The Way It Wasn't

Sam Leff | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: 1968 Democratic National Convention, Tom Brokaw, 1968, Yippies, Walter Cronkite, 1968 Election, A.O. Scott, Abbie Hoffman, Politics News
Sam Leff

Some forty years after Walter Cronkite told it like it was and called the Chicago of 1968 "a police state," Tom Brokaw, A.O. Scott, and Andie Tucher told their own versions -- like it wasn't.

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Anniversary: Chicago '68

Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.14.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Police Brutality, Vietnam War Protests, Riot, 1968, Chicago, Yippies, Convention, Chicago News
Michael Kaplan

All things converged to one night: tonight, forty-one years ago. The police found the fuse and lit it.

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Change the World? Give a Kid a Book

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 09.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Johnny Got a Gun, The Beatles, 1968 Democratic National Convention, James Joyce, The Sisters, The Dubliners, Martin Luther King, Anti-War Movement, 1968, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, Bobby Kennedy, John Wayne, Books, Living News
Kenneth C. Davis

She was the town's meter maid -- a plus-sized meter maid, and not "the most comely of maidens." One day after choir, she handed me a book, saying simply: "I think you will like this."

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Wimbledon Tennis: Sports Illustrated's Jon Wertheim Updates the Greatest Sports Book Ever Written

Matthew DeBord | Posted 08.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Wimbledon, Sports Illustrated, U.S. Open, The New Yorker, 2008, 1968, John McEnroe, Clark Graebner, Jon Wertheim. John McPhee, Roger Federer, Arthur Ashe, Tennis, Semifinal, Levels of the Game, Rafel Nadal, Entertainment News
Matthew DeBord

You wouldn't think it could be done, taking John McPhee's 1969 book Levels of the Game and using it to make something equally compelling. But Wertheim has, and that's his personal triumph.

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The GOP Shall Rise Again! (Or Not)

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Neoconservatives, Gop, Lyndon Johnson, Conservatives, 1968, Barry Goldwater, Republicans, Politics News
Robert J. Elisberg

Republicans must not take comfort from 1968. They must take it as a warning sign.

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50 Years Later We Ask: When did the Cuban Revolution Die?

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 01.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cuban Revolution, Yoani Sanchez, Cuba, Generation Y, Fidel Castro, Revolutionaries, World, 1968, Spanish, Black Spring, Hippies, Sierra Maestra, Politics News
Yoani Sanchez

In 1975, the year I was born in Cuba, nothing remained of the rebellion that the older people remembered. We had neither long hair nor euphoria.

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Making Sense of the Sixties: Reflections for the 40th Reunion of the Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1968

Stephen Mo Hanan | Posted 12.19.2008 | Style

Read More: Counterculture, 1960s, The Sixties, Loose Morals, 1968, Counter Culture, Gop, Rebelling, Harvard, Hippies, Style News
Stephen Mo Hanan

The dress, music, drugs and loose morals of the emerging counterculture must have looked to a Sixties puritan like a reversion to chaotic paganism.

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How the Obama Election Transformed Historic Locations

Jim Wallis | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Violence, Racism, 1968, Police, Chicago, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., 2008 Election, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Mayor Richard Daley, Barack Obama, Robert Kennedy, Grant Park, Election Reaction, HuffPost Election Reaction, Politics News
Jim Wallis

Children of color, indeed of all colors, across America woke up on Wednesday morning not just to a new day, but a new world.

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Hot Flashes From the End of the Trail

Alison Teal | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Election Protection, Election Night, Election Day, Sam Brown, Ernest Green, American City, Wesley Clark, Election, 1968, Forty Years Ago, Obama Chicago, Obama Grant Park, Political Activism, Abraham Lincoln, Political Fundraising, Chicago Riots, HuffPost Election Reaction, Obama Presidency, Politics News
Alison Teal

I told Clark how much I admired him and his campaign and with tears streaming down his face, he said, "That was just a lucky moment in time for me. This, this is history."

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Obama Wins Third Manassas

Dale Pendell | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Election 08, 1968, Barack Obama, Politics News
Dale Pendell

Obama wins Third Manassas, takes Virginia; Pennsylvania key-- McCain's concession From the Goldwater Room echoes Lee On ...

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Cesar Chavez at the Root of Obama's Campaign: Grassroots Latino Voter Outreach

Randy Shaw | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Latinos, Yes We Can, Obama National Latino Advisory Council, California Primary, Strategy, California, Miguel Contreras, "Camp Obamas, Primary, Outreach, Los Angeles, " Eliseo Medina, 2008 Election, Obama Campaign, Obama Supporters, Cesar Chavez, Nonviolence, Marshall Ganz, Latino Voters, 1968, Organizing Drives, Fast for Our Future, Sharon Delugach, Door-to-Door Campaigning, UFW, Si Se Puede, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, On the Ground, Robert Kennedy, Politics News
Randy Shaw

If Barack Obama's campaign wins on November 4th, LA should be identified as the birthplace of the grassroots voter outreach strategy that dramatically changed the political course of the US.

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Ayers Attacks Are An Affront To Soldiers And Protesters Alike

Jean Vickers | Posted 11.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Terrorists, 1968, Sarah Palin, Palin, Ayers, Obama, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Home News
Jean Vickers

To assert that Obama "hangs around with terrorists" is an attempt to capitalize on the tumult of the 1960's without concretely linking that era to contemporary politics.

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On the Campus: Forty Years Later

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 06.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Columbia University, 1960s, 1968, Changing Times, New York Times Magazine, Media News
Amitai Etzioni

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Worst Person In The World

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Muslim, Clinton Kennedy, Hillary Clinton Bobby Kennedy, Obama Assassination, Clinton Assassination, Barack Obama, Robert F. Kennedy, Hillary Obama Assassination, Clinton Obama Assassination, 1968, Hillary Clinton Barack Obama Assassination, Hillary Clinton, Rfk, Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, Hillary Clinton Assassination, Assassination, Politics News
Bob Cesca

This newest quote from Senator Clinton today ought to be the final inciting incident for superdelegates -- the scream that stirs the avalanche.

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Journey To The Center Of Hillary Clinton's Mind: "Why Would I Drop Out Before Barack Obama Is Assassinated?"

David Rees | Posted 05.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Assassination, Obama Assassination, Hillary Obama Assassination, Obama Muslim, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy, Rfk, Clinton Obama Assassination, Hillary Clinton Barack Obama Assassination, Hillary Clinton Bobby Kennedy, Clinton Kennedy, Clinton Assassination, Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, Hillary Clinton Assassination, Politics News
David Rees

Hillary Clinton has a point: June is a great month for political assassinations. Why drop out of the race before all the assassins have had their say?

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From Woodstock to Rothbury: From Activism to Energy Independence

Dan Worth | Posted 05.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Environment, John Mayer, Environmentalism, Woodstock, Carbon Emissions, 1968, Dave Matthews Band, Living News
Dan Worth

Summer of '68 In the summer of 1968, the US was experiencing post-war growing pains that sparked the birth of a social and political movement that wou...

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Trailer: The History Channel 1968

Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: 1968, Tom Brokaw, The History Channel, Home News

Watch the trailer for "1968" with Tom Brokaw, airing on The History Channel Sunday, Dec. 9th, 9pm/8c. Learn more about "1968" on The History Channel ...

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Trailer: The History Channel "1968"

Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: 1968, Tom Brokaw, The History Channel, Home News

Watch the trailer for "1968" with Tom Brokaw, airing on The History Channel Sunday, Dec. 9th, 9pm/8c. Learn more about "1968" on The History Channel...

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