Word: activists
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Last week New York's United Black Church Appeal launched a valiant campaign against the drug. Some 200 ministers, celebrities and antidrug activists participated in street-corner rallies and 24-hour vigils in areas where crack is sold. "The house is on fire," said Actor Ossie Davis at a rally in Harlem. "Those of us who care have to ring the alarm bell." While calling for greater community action, organizers of the campaign mocked the Federal Government's efforts to stop drug trafficking, including the raids in Bolivia. "I'll never understand why, if they're serious about a drug...
After a noisy, 18-hour marathon trial that ended at 4:25 in the morning, Desyr was convicted of killing Jean-Jacques Dessalines Ambroise, a union activist, and his pregnant wife, and of torturing Jean-Jacques's brother Emmanuel, in 1965. Ambroise's cousin Alix, who was arrested along with the couple but survived, told the court that police threw Jean-Jacques into the trunk of their automobile for the drive to headquarters, where Desyr took part in the interrogation. In a darkened cell, Alix Ambroise said, he later heard what sounded like a "sack of coconuts" being dumped onto...
...this is 1986, when women on screen have been liberated from goddess-hood and turned into grunts. So Sigourney Weaver -- actor, playwright, bonne vivante, gun-control activist and, at a sensational 5 ft. 10 1/2 in., just possibly the world's most beautiful tall smart woman -- is striding toward stardom in her Marks & Spencer underwear and shouldering enough artillery to keep Caspar Weinberger happy till next Thursday. Aliens, indeed; has anyone thought of starring her in a movie called Humans...
...wrote this letter? Ted Kennedy? Bishop Desmond Tutu? A prominent divestment activist? No, none of the above. It was President Derek C. Bok, who has spent many years justifying Harvard's colossal investments in South Africa, protesting the state of emergency and urging the U.S. to impose sanctions on that country...
Which brings us to student journalists. By grouping those who do try to affect Harvard under the general heading of activist, we do a disservice to the community. One need not be a constant gadfly to participate in a society. Journalists have a tendency to concentrate on the loudest or bestknown matters of contention in our community. But that doesn't mean divestment is the only issue of concern at Harvard. In addition to the omnipresent South Africa questions, there are questions about the diversity of the faculty, the effectiveness of a liberal arts education, University relations with Cambridge...