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...While supporters of the strike allege that it’s only in extreme actions in which change can be affected, I’ve got to disagree. Even if the hunger strike does “work,” other activist venues could have been utilized that would have brought in wider student support and not endangered the lives of eleven students...
...Gordon was the last Cabinet colleague you'd have thought of suggesting a drink with," says Baroness Morris of Yardley, who worked alongside Brown when she was Secretary of State for Education and Skills. Bob Geldof, the musician and Live Aid activist, developed a close relationship with Brown while lobbying him on Africa. Yet he, too, sees limits to their camaraderie. "Would it be easy to spend a night in a bar with him?" asks Geldof. "No, he'd get bored. Not with you, but with that chitchat level." Even Brown's inner circle frets about the friendliness-factor issue...
Chess grand master and activist Garry Kasparov with his wife Dasha
Youssou N'Dour, the great Senegalese singer and political activist, started off the evening with a set of remarkable songs, culminating in a lyrical ode to Africa. Jimmy Wales, inventor of Wikipedia, met with Richard Dawkins, the biologist and outspoken atheist, to explain why Dawkins' attempts to edit Wikipedia entries kept being rejected. Philip Rosedale, creator of the popular Second Life, a virtual world online, crisscrossed the cocktail floor in search of Suzanne Vega, the noted singer, whom he had met on Second Life but never in person. Each table was a microcosm of the TIME 100 issue, with leaders...
...seriously across the left-right divide,” he said. “This is another important reminder that there is no simple identification between concern for the environment and being on the left.” After his talk, Florenz fielded questions from a young supporter of activist Lyndon LaRouche, an instructor from Boston University, and graduate students from MIT and the Kennedy School of Government. Questions ranged from the possibility that the climate crisis alarm is a hoax, to a query about the environmental impact of the higher speed limits in Germany, to the issue...