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Student activism had roiled the Harvard campus throughout the 1960s, and Bok, who had established his conciliatory leadership style as head of the Law School, was charged with diffusing the crisis...
...seems to think students today are as easily brainwashed as he was back in the 60s,” said Jentleson. “We think the students we represent are smarter than that.”Horowitz was an editor of a left-wing magazine in the 1960s and worked closely with the Black Panther Party in inner-city Oakland in the 1970s before he adopted more right-wing stances.Horowitz said yesterday that he was accustomed to criticism. “I have so many scars I look like Jesus in the Mel Gibson film...
...three charged students now have to deal with the courts, they will also have to deal with an administration that, in recent history, has had a less punative response to allegations of drug use.GOOD TRIPS & BAD VIBESHarvard Square was a hotbed for drug dealers and experimenters in the 1960s, and according to a March 1965 Crimson story, then-Middlesex Superior Court Justice Frank W. Tomasello alleged that institutions like Harvard were to blame. “Tax-free institutions,” he said during the 1965 sentencing of an accused 19 year-old drug dealer, “should...
...1960s, a new species of fish, the Nile perch, was introduced in Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest. In the mid-1990s, Austrian filmmaker Hubert Sauper went to the shores of the lake, in Tanzania, to film how the species, now one of the country’s main exports, had obliterated all others in the lake and even became cannibalistic. In the mid-2000s, the film “Darwin’s Nightmare” opened at the Venice Film Festival, shocked audiences worldwide, and has since been nominated as Best Documentary at the Academy Awards...
...fewer than a dozen people were making sure Sly Stone got to the Grammys on time. ?Are we late?? asked the 61-year-old songwriter and 1960s icon, from under a motorcycle helmet. ?I thought we were right on time.? It was noon, five hours before the start of 48th Annual Grammy Awards telecast, and Stone sat, placidly, in the trailer car of a stretch purple motorcycle in the parking lot of a Beverly Hills mini-mall. Several hours later, the man known as the J.D. Salinger of funk emerged onstage at the Staples Center in Los Angeles...