Producer Dallas Austin worked with him on Michael Jackson's "HIStory: Past, Present and Future" and, like the rest of the world, was stunned by his death.

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Magosaki quotes a historian to the effect that we study history not so much to understand the past, but to understand the present.

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The military aircraft, U.N. workers, and tons of relief supplies present for the longest humanitarian airlift in history had faded into the past.

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In this, Last Call does what great history should: acts as a window to the past that opens to a greater understanding of our present.

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