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Members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church, an organization started by anti-gay activist Fred W. Phelps, flew to Cambridge from their native Kansas to protest a Harvard Law School (HLS) committee established to study offensive speech at that school...
...last three years of going to public hearings, Tom Lucey...always spoke out in favor of big developers, and always spoke out against neighborhood wishes,” said Cob Carlson, a Riverside activist. “His track record matches Harvard in dealing with neighborhoods. It is a predictable pick on their part but it’s a terrible pick for neighborhoods...
Like many undergraduates, I do a poor job of keeping up on local news, even when it impacts issues that affect me; I make the admittedly lazy decision to put my trust in student activist groups to keep me informed via posters, e-mails...
...killed by Palestinian gunmen and suicide bombers, and 23 Palestinians were killed by Israeli missile attacks designed to eradicate the leadership of the terrorist group Hamas. Of the Palestinians killed, 14 were civilians, including the wife and baby daughter of Yasser Taha, whom the Israelis described as a Hamas activist. The death toll might have been higher; on June 10 an Israeli missile attack on vehicles in Gaza wounded but did not kill Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a longtime leader of Hamas, which, according to Israeli figures, is responsible for the deaths of 287 Israelis since September...
...strangest thing about being kidnapped, says Mohammed Salahuddin, was how familiar?and even inevitable?it seemed. The 53-year-old political activist had already negotiated a $2,000 ransom for his brother Badruddin in December 1998, and a few years before that he had secured his first cousin's release from another gang. So Salahuddin knew exactly what was happening when 10 armed men surrounded his Jeep on March 25 as he drove to a party meeting in a remote corner of India's northeastern Bihar state. Holding him at gunpoint, they yelled: "Move and we'll shoot!" Salahuddin recalls...