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Daily Bread for 11.21.11

Good morning.

Awaiting Whitewater is a partly sunny day with a high temperature  of forty-five.

We’ve any number of protests in Wisconsin these days, but there’s nothing new about protests among us, as the Wisconsin Historical Society recalls a notable campus protest in 1968:

On this date, 96 African-American students were arrested for occupying the university president’s office to protest the University administration’s refusal to commit to adding more black teachers, classes in African-American history, black speakers on campus, and a black cultural center. Although the students were jailed and suspended from the University, within a year many of their ideas were implemented, including adding black literature and history classes and opening an Interracial Cultural Center. View more information in the Dictionary of Wisconsin History. [Source: UW-Oshkosh Web site, “Do Your Thing,” http://www.uwosh.edu/archives/bt/about.htm]

I know only a little about Singapore, but apparently chicken rice is a famous national dish in that country.  Whatever limitations that nation may have, the food does look wonderful —

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