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CORRECTION: The Oct. 16 news article "Schlafly Stirs Audience Walkout" gave an incorrect estimate of the number of people attending a speech by political activist Phyllis Schlafly. According to Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study officials, about 150 people were at the event, not 70 as the article reported...
...conflict in areas like Darfur, where drought likely worsened by global warming helped trigger a civil war that has claimed over 200,000 lives. (Nor are Gore and the IPCC the first greens to win the Peace Prize; that would be the Kenyan Wangari Maathai, a conservationist and political activist who won in 2004.) As the IPCC's own reports this year show, unabated global warming will likely lead to competition for increasingly scarce resources and create waves of climate refugees in the hottest and poorest nations. A warmer world will almost certainly be a more violent...
...undergraduates, a theme former College Dean Harry R. Lewis ’68 stressed in his 2005 book “Excellence Without A Soul.” This attitude of entitlement has been evident in recent days. An e-mail sent over several lists by a longtime student activist implored students to “call the man who killed your party grants…let’s ensure that [Dean Pilbeam] has a really nice day, feel free to call every hour.” Have we really come to such a lynch mob mentality? The Harvard...
...have scaled up their antiterrorist operations and moved aggressively against ETA and Batasuna. Earlier this week, Spanish authorities arrested two other Batasuna leaders. Arnaldo Otegi, the group's main spokesperson was jailed on June 8 to serve a 15-month sentence for participating in a tribute to an ETA activist killed in 1978 by a fascist paramilitary group...
...Palestine is being destroyed before our eyes by U.S.-backed Israeli actions. So for those reasons, ‘talking about Palestine’ has a definite political cast in the U.S. and Israel.”The majority of the organizing committee members are human rights activists, but Sawhney firmly declares that they are not indulging in “mere political propaganda.” The subject of most of these films cannot be taken lightly: heavy sighs came from the audience at the Harvard Film Archive as children from refugee camps spoke of their homeland over nostalgic...