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Meanwhile, Kerry went from St. Paul’s to Yale to the U.S. Navy. He became a decorated Vietnam War hero and, afterwards, an outspoken peace activist. Kerry met one-time lead Beatle and Electras hero John Lennon at an anti-war rally in New York’s Bryant Park...
...hero for her efforts to fix the country's chaotic finances and clean up corruption. But many Nigerians would also love to see tribute paid to people like Gani Fawehinmi, Nigeria's most renowned human-rights lawyer and campaigner. Or the late Afro-beat band leader, saxophonist and political activist Fela Kuti, who sang about the ills of the government and the struggles of poor workers. Tomiwa Kukoyi Lagos I'm O.K., You're an Idiot James Poniewozik's essay "The Age of iPod Politics," about Americans' ability to fashion their own insular world, was right on target...
...investments have crossed paths with a controversial African regime: In the 1970s and 1980s, the University seemed to do its best to maintain its state and private investments in the white-minority South African regime, still in the grip of apartheid. Even the election of anti-apartheid activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Harvard’s Board of Overseers in 1989 did not convince the University to fully divest...
...months later, Santiago became a BDSM activist, joining a movement that had been underway for a decade before Paddleboro made the fight more urgent...
...Odyssey begins with a modern activist, Laura J. Arandes ’05, arguing with David, politically apathetic fellow student, Jeremiah P. Hendren ’08, who just wants to make it to history class on time. David doesn’t understand how politics applies to his life, he doesn’t want to sort through confusing political propaganda and he doesn’t think his one vote will matter...