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Daily Archives: October 20, 2024
Kamala Harris was born
on this day in 1964
Kamala Harris – the 49th and current vice president of the United States – was born on this day – October 20, 1964 – in Oakland, California. She holds a BA from Howard University and JD from the University of California College of the Law.
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Campus Trivia
America’s 10 largest companies in 1965
The 10 largest companies on the 1965 Fortune 500 list via CNN Money:
- General Motors
- Exxon
- Ford
- General Electric
- Mobile
- Chrysler
- U.S. Steel
- Texaco
- International Business Machines
- Gulf Oil
Between 1955 and 1965, three companies dropped out of the Fortune 500 Top 10: Esmark; Armour and Dupont.
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Campus Trivia
Top 10 Chick Pea Producers
Campus Life at the
University of Cincinnati
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If the United States is in the middle of a new American revolution, months and probably years will pass before its effects or causes are fully discerned. Even when structures are unstable and existing institutions lack legitimacy, “old regimes” never fall apart neatly and completely—they have to be taken apart piece by piece.
~ Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic
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The current crisis brings a strong sense of déjà vu: the chants, the teach-ins, the nonnegotiable demands, the self-conscious building of separate communities, the revolutionary costumes, the embrace of oppressed identities by elite students, the tactic of escalating to incite a reaction that mobilizes a critical mass of students. It’s as if campus-protest politics has been stuck in an era of prolonged stagnation since the late 1960s.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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