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...Harvey Milk, the San Francisco gay activist who was murdered 30 years ago tomorrow, has a New York City public school, a Georgia rock band and, as of this week, a Bay Area civil-service building named for him. The first openly homosexual city supervisor in the U.S., he organized gays into a potent political force. Then there are the movies. Bryan Singer, director of X-Men and Superman Returns, is completing a Milk documentary, The Mayor of Castro Street. Today we get Milk, a hurtling, minutely researched, close-to-irresistible biopic starring Academy Award winner Sean Penn, whose performance...
...chance to honor young public servants, the creation of the award also presented the Kennedy Library and the IOP an opportunity to work together. According to Flynn, the IOP scours the country for nominees for the elected official award and the Kennedy Library does the same for potential community activist honorees. The recipients are selected by the New Frontier Awards committee, which includes IOP Director Bill P. Purcell, Kennedy Library CEO John Shattuck, and former Kennedy Library Director and advisor to President Kennedy Dan H. Fenn, Jr. ’44. —Staff writer Lauren D. Kiel...
...Boston City Council in 1999, Turner is currently in his fifth two-year term as a councilor for District 7, which includes Roxbury, Lower Roxbury and parts of Dorchester, Fenway, and the South End. After graduating from Harvard, Turner served as a community organizer and a civil rights activist for over 40 years, according to the Boston city government’s Web site. Turner could not be reached for comment yesterday, and his voice mail message says that his “office is temporarily closed”. —Staff writer Michal Labik can be reached...
...after his death. Critics of the practice say that while it might have some historical precedent, it is outdated and could open up the Dalai Lama to the charge that he is trying to create a dynasty. "It's a bit discredited," says Jamyang Norbu, an outspoken pro-independence activist. "This was used by reigning family of the Lama to hold on to power...
...negotiating for genuine autonomy while remaining part of China. Talking about independence can be taken as an implicit criticism of the Dalai Lama and thus considered taboo among many Tibetans, but this week's talks have brought those views into the mainstream. Leaders of the main pro-independence activist groups were invited to be among the 550 delegates, and their opinions will be incorporated into its final report. "Overall it was a very frank discussion," says Tenzin Choeying, president of Students for a Free Tibet...