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MCI HISTORY DOCUMENTARY, "Long Distance Warrior: A New Documentary About the Most Famous Entrepreneur You've Never Heard Of," Sarah Holt and Bestor Cram's documentary about William G. McGowan, who transformed long-distance service from a luxury to affordability as he built MCI into a huge telecommunications company; followed by a discussion with the filmmakers. 7 p.m.,

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The Los Angeles Times featured an article on architect Barbara Bestor, whose recently completed home shares close quarters with Frank Lloyd Wright's 1924 textile block masterpiece, the Ennis House.

The Ennis House's New Neighbor 2008

I love that Bestor found an inspired way to use the principles at work in Wright's creation in designing her own house solutions in a new and decidedly individual way.

The Ennis House's New Neighbor 2008

A concrete wall meant to keep the pool safe for children and inaccessible from the street also gave Bestor a chance to put the Ennis

The Ennis House's New Neighbor 2008

For more information about Barbara Bestor, check out her website and her book!

The Ennis House's New Neighbor 2008

U.S. News brought Bestor back to explain how we had gone wrong.

Gerald Bracey: Nationally, Schools Suck, Local Schools Are Fine 2009

The interview was remarkable mostly for the number of historical errors one would not expect a historian to make (Bestor taught history at the University of Illinois), including not recognizing that 50 years back from the time of the interview would have been 1906 when the high school graduation rate was 7 percent; by 1956 it was above 60 percent.

Gerald Bracey: Nationally, Schools Suck, Local Schools Are Fine 2009

"In the light of Sputnik," said Bestor, "'life adjustment education' turns out to have been perilously close to 'death adjustment' for our nation and our children."

Gerald Bracey: The Great Big Engine That Didn't 2008

Ted Bestor did an ethnographic history of another Japanese institution, the great Tokyo fish market at Tsukiji and no, he does not call it “the chrysanthemum and the swordfish”!

Samurai Baseball: Off Base or Safe at Home? 2007

Ted Bestor did an ethnographic history of another Japanese institution, the great Tokyo fish market at Tsukiji and no, he does not call it “the chrysanthemum and the swordfish”!

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