Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grogan] gives the sense of being an activist," said one Mass. Hall official. "His presence will definitely be felt in the community...
Harvard's next great dropout, folk singer and activist Pete Seeger, could have been a graduate of the class of 1940, but, he said, "I got too interested in left-wing politics, and I let my marks slip." Seeger had a scholarship that covered 30 percent of his tuition, his family paid 40 percent and he himself worked for the other 30 percent, waiting tables in the Freshman Union. When, in April of his sophomore year, his grades dropped--due largely to his commitment to a newsletter called "The Harvard Progressive"--the school rescinded his financial aid, and neither...
...Ramos-Horta, who was awarded Harvard's Gleitsman International Activist Award in 1995, was introduced by Dr. S. Allen Counter, chair of the Harvard Foundation, as the "most prominent East Timorese in exile" and someone who has "had a central role in advancing East Timor's freedom struggle...
...Earle profile for the CNN show Earth Matters (Sundays, 1:30 p.m. E.T.). TIME FOR KIDS will put out three special Heroes issues, and TIME Online will have a website, time.com/heroes and arrange online chats with our heroes. On Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. E.T., Greenpeace activist Niaz Dorry will take questions at chat.yahoo.com/time Dorry once helped plan a protest against TIME (see Skow's story), but in picking Heroes for the Planet, we didn't hold that against...
...original. Jesus heals a truck driver of leprosy, raises Lazarus from the dead and predicts his own betrayal at the Last Supper. ("He's drunk, guys," says an Apostle. "It's the wine talking.") If the point is to make Jesus' teachings live for a contemporary audience, activist Christians should be hailing this play, not trying to suppress...