Almanac Today Facts and Birthdays for 2011 Autumn Day
Almanac notes 2011 is the 321st day and 56th of autumn. Highlights include Congress meeting in 1800 in Washington and the Suez Canal opening in 1869. JFK dedicates Dulles Airport in 1962. Birthdays list figures like Rock Hudson and Martin Scorsese. Moon phase between Nov 10 full moon and Nov 18 last quarter.
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United States Congress
Washington, D.C
Capitol Building
John F. Kennedy
Dulles International Airport
New York Jets
Oakland Raiders
NBC
Oakland
Price Tag Attacks Threaten Israeli Peace Efforts
Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Trudy Rubin reports on the Price Tag attacks by Jewish militants targeting peace activists and government opponents in Jerusalem and the West Bank. She notes threats to Hagit Ofran and the broader impact on settlement dismantling and a potential two state solution.
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Jerusalem
Hagit Ofran
Yitzhak Rabin
Ofran
Rabin
West Bank
Israel
Peace Now
Yeshayahu Leibowitz
Gaza
Amona
Nitzan Alon
Dani Dayan
Yesha Settler Council
Givat Assaf
United States
Shin Bet
Yuval Diskin
Ehud Sprinzak
Hebron
Sprinzak
Class warfare and the narrowing of opportunity across America
Connie Schultz argues that rising income inequality has shifted American neighborhoods toward concentration of wealth and deepened class-based barriers to mobility. She cites a Stanford 2010 study showing declines in middle income neighborhoods from 65 to 44 percent since 1970 and rising segregation, then contrasts internships and college access where affluent students dominate while working-class peers burdened by debt and low wages.
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Stanford University
Russell Sage and
Brown University
Capitol Hill
Wall Street
Stanford
America
Penn State legend Joe Paterno in twilight of a flawed legacy
Margaret Carlson argues that the Sandusky scandal exposes a culture at Penn State where inaction and power protected a predator within the athletics and university leadership. The piece criticizes Mike McQueary Tim Curley and others for not acting and questions Paterno’s century of influence and its consequences.
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Penn State
Mike McQueary
Grand Jury
Jerry Sandusky
McQueary
Joe Paterno
Warren Buffett
Nittany Valley
Paterno
Sandusky
Tim Curley
Curley
Schultz
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