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...writers who matriculate each year at Harvard, have spent most of our young lives proving to everyone how smart we are, when suddenly, a campus full of other smart people shatters our self-confidence. Insecurity about our own intellectualism, more than a desire to whine, drives us to support activist organizations that fight for “enlightened” social causes. We become part of the intellectual elite that cares about things like AIDS in Africa and the living wage, and we thrive on the mystique...
...years. Separately, an anti-tax organization called the Tax Relief Coalition has recruited 20 business organizations for a "working group" on the issue. Its first meeting is set for this week. If that is not enough to entice businesses to get on board, maybe another kind of pressure will. Activist Grover Norquist, who works closely with the White House, warns the business world to think long term. "You want to be in on next year's package?" Norquist asks. "Then salute this year's." --By Karen Tumulty
...This is a kind of experiment,” said Nancy Murray, an activist from the Massachusetts chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU...
...Nothing special, nothing at all," says Aliah Gazal Dawood, 39, a housewife and Ba?ath Party activist, armed with fistfuls of candy that she will throw (in lieu of flowers) at the marchers. Is this collective modesty, or was something lost in the translation...
Yesterday’s announcement by reclusive millionaire Jeffrey Epstein of his plans to contribute $30 million to fund a center for the study of mathematical biology provides a chance for redemption to the University, which recently lost a $12 million pledge by donor-activist Jane Fonda. Last week, Fonda reneged on her gift to the Graduate School of Education (GSE) in part because of the divergence of her vision of the center and that of the University...