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...small contingent of students from Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement unfurled a protest banner and politely requested that the University avoid layoffs during an intimate lunch event with University President Drew G. Faust and seven Eliot residents. SLAM, a student organization that advocates on behalf of Harvard staff, interrupted Faust’s noontime meal with a warm welcome and round of applause. They then presented her with an open letter and an oversized cotton T-shirt. In the letter—addressed to the President and the Corporation, the University’s highest governing body?...
...Faust blinks in surprise as a rowdy gang from SLAM -- the student labor action movement-- interrupts the intimate meal to hand Faust an open letter petition against layoffs and a conciliatory t-shirt Faust will never wear...
...Michael Walzer, and Charles H. Tilly ’50. Before studying at Harvard, Beer was a staff member of the Democratic National Committee, and occasionally wrote speeches for former President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 and 1936. Active in American politics, Beer was chairman of Americans for Democratic Action during his tenure at Harvard from 1959 to 1962. He also actively opposed student rebellions at Harvard during the late sixties.Beer was elected president of the American Political Science Association in 1977, and was also appointed as a fellow of the British Academy in 2000.After earning his Ph.D., Beer earned...
...attacks last year. The pirates generally want cash, not trouble. They've treated their hostages well, and violence has been rare. All of that changed, of course, last week when a quartet of Somalis seized Phillips from the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama. In the wake of the U.S. action, some pirates and Somali warlords have pledged to take revenge on some of the more than 200 international sailors currently being held captive on the seas. (See a brief history of pirates...
...Responsibility for changing that equation belongs to the new U.S. African Command (Africom), set up 18 months ago to help provide security to permit the rebuilding of shattered nations like Somalia. But don't look for quick action. "We do not have a military presence in Somalia," the command's chief, Army General William Ward, told Congress last month. In fact, the military is in no rush to head back to that lawless nation in the Horn of Africa. President Clinton's Pentagon was first bloodied there when 18 soldiers died in a 1993 firefight memorialized in Black Hawk Down...