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...mixed-race children nationwide, most the unwanted offspring of Western men and Filipina prostitutes. Some, like 16-year-old Robert, live on the streets, surviving on handouts and sniffs of mind-numbing glue. "They are born in shame," says Agnes Espiritu, a women's and child-rights activist based in Angeles City, home to what was once Clark Air Force Base, one of the the U.S.'s largest facilities in Asia before being returned to the Philippines in 1991. "They can't hide their history because it is printed so clearly on their faces...
...Eduardo Galeano is trying to take the blinders from the eyes of a broader public, one whose wits have been addled by entertainment masquerading as news. Subtitled “a primer for the looking-glass world,” it is as redundant to the living-wage activist as The Stranger is to the inmate on death row; comforting, perhaps, but not terribly informative...
...sees as perpetrators of injustice. Always has been. Because once he decides to challenge them, he knows no half-measures. At age 14, he tried to burn down his school during the 1976 Soweto uprising against apartheid education. And that was just the opening act of a teenage activist career that saw him leave high school well acquainted with apartheid's prison cells and with the knuckles of its security policemen. He spent the next two decades as a tireless activist in the struggle to end apartheid, and once that struggle was over he turned to making documentary films about...
...business and obsessed with the size of our endowment, I wonder how hard it would be to give us a new perspective on Commencement day—something other than the importance of money and the economy. Why not consider a noted ethnic studies scholar, a grassroots political activist, an outstanding teacher, a humanitarian or (dare I say it) a woman to send us into the real world? I hope that in future years Harvard will be able to break out of its narrow-minded rut and, if nothing else, choose a Commencement speaker who can provide students with...
ARRESTED. JAMES KOPP, 46, radical anti-abortion activist on the FBI's 10-most-wanted list; for the 1998 shooting death of New York abortion doctor Barnett Slepian; at a post office in Dinan, France. Kopp was on the run for two years. In the U.S., he could face the death penalty, but his arrest in France may complicate prosecution. French law prohibits extradition of foreign nationals to countries where they can be sentenced to death...