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...recently signed to produce her second solo album under the moniker NINA, short for New Identity Not Applicable and gangsta slang for a 9-mm gun. DIED. LINDA BOREMAN, 53, better known as Linda Lovelace, star of the notorious 1972 sex flick Deep Throat who later turned antiporn activist, of injuries from a car crash; in Denver, Colorado (see Eulogy). DIED. PAM BAKER, 71, gutsy lawyer and human rights activist; in Macclesfield, England. Baker spent 19 years in Hong Kong championing the rights of battered women and underprivileged mainlanders as well as trying to secure refugee status for Vietnamese boat...
...crisis long in the making. According to Sulak Srivaraksa, a social critic and Buddhist activist, its roots lie in the rise of materialism and state control of the religion. Both began in earnest half a century ago when Thailand started fervently pursuing Western-style development. The military government employed slogans such as "work is money, money is happiness." Those messages were antithetical to Buddhism, which teaches that suffering is quelled by rejecting material desires. In its constitutional role as protector of the state religion, the government began co-opting the clergy into supporting its new consumer culture...
Sachs also read a four-page letter written at 2:00 a.m. yesterday morning by rock star and activist Bono, U2’s lead singer who also spoke at Harvard’s Class Day last year...
This weekend witnessed the first action by a coalition of roughly a dozen minority and activist student groups in a campaign to push Summers and the Harvard Corporation—Harvard’s most powerful governing body—to take more “proactive steps towards increasing diversity in the faculty, administration, and student body at Harvard...
Stein, a medical doctor and environmental reform activist, joins Warren...