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Actor and activist Laurence Fishburne and dozens of student groups dazzled more than 1,000 people in a colorful display of music and movement at the 22nd annual “Cultural Rhythms” show on Saturday...
...College Republicans also represent the national party in microcosm—indeed, they represent the party of the future. And if the frequency of these misguided activist endeavors is any indication, the future does not look particularly bright...
...they say, should be to explore the far reaches of the universe by roving robot, leaving Earth's orbit and the moon to the private sector. "We're in this transition zone, where the Lewis and Clark role of NASA has been done on the human side," says space activist and rabble rouser Rick Tumlinson, founder of Orbital Outfitters. "Now it's time for the settlers and shopkeepers to move...
...which would have been dull and ineffective, Barrett takes the approach of introducing his audience to genuine American Muslims. Each of the seven chapters describes a person who epitomizes a facet of Muslim life in America. Barrett introduces each one masterfully: his publisher, scholar, imam, feminist, mystic, webmaster, and activist are lifted off the page. Each chapter’s title is a generalized description of one of the characters (such as “The Publisher”), which risks presenting them as archetypes instead of real people. How could a chapter entitled “The Scholar?...
...Those beliefs stem in part from a personal grievance against the former President: when he was in office, he refused to pardon Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist serving life in prison for the 1975 murder of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. His case has been a cause celebre for some liberal activists who say he was unfairly convicted...