[3] There are lots of college football rivalries. But the annual collision of Army and Navy is in a league of its own. Even for people who don’t follow either team during the fall, the season-capping Army-Navy game [4] is a big deal.
[6] What does Star Trek have to do with Kansas City journalist Edgar Snow, let alone Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to the People’s Republic of China to meet with Mao Tse-Tung?
[8] In his new book A Team for America: The Army-Navy Game that Rallied a Nation, historian Randy Roberts talks about the pivotal 1944 football game that came to symbolize national pride in a time of war.
[10] Wendell Potter has good news and bad news. The bad news, according to him, is that health care in America is sick. Life expectancy and infant mortality rates here are lower than in some Third World countries. People die because they can’t get insurance – upwards of 45,000 a year.
[12] This past Thursday at the Plaza Branch, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer stood before a crowd of nearly 700 people and made a strong case for civic literacy in the face of cynicism.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/KC%20Unbound/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/team-america-local-cadets-remember-army-navy-game
[4] http://armynavygame.com/
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15966#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/meet-thespock-mtp-video-mash
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15932#comment-form
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/author-interview-randy-roberts-1944-football-game-rallied-nation
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15911#comment-form
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/interview-whistle-blower-wendell-potter-why-our-health-care-system-sick
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15703#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/justice-stephen-breyer-has-good-constitution
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15371#comment-form
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=6
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=3
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=4
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=5
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=8
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=9
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=10
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=11
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=15
